Taste Labs hiring Design Research Engineer to turn design taste into evals
round · x · 2026-11-13
Taste Labs is hiring a Design Research Engineer (San Francisco, full-time, on-site) — a role focused on engineering design taste:
- Breaking down creativity, turning good/bad visual design into evals, classifying design styles
- Making typography, color, layout and alignment fundamentals measurable
- Designing interfaces to collect designer reasoning and creative data-collection methods
- Defining "what is AI slop and how to spot it"
Requirements: strong honed taste (personal preference vs. ground truth), researcher mindset, AI-forward workflow (Claude Code/Cursor/Codex, shipping design in code). Signals that "taste" is becoming a serious AI research direction.
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