Senior Tax & Audit AI Engineer, FDE

Description

You will help tax and audit professionals turn real business problems into dependable AI tools. You combine tax or audit know-how with AI tools to build automations, check their accuracy and deliver solutions professionals can rely on, working with clients, engineers and the company's specialists from prototype through deployment.

The company supplies trusted content and technology to legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government and media professionals, and also runs a global news and journalism business.

The company has 26,000 employees in more than 70 countries. This posting may be used to fill current openings or future vacancies.

Responsibilities

• Work with public accounting firms and corporate tax departments to map their workflows, find where automation helps and agree on what a successful result looks like.
• Design solutions that leave professional judgment with the user and include controls for accuracy, risk and professional standards.
• Create prompts, AI agent instructions, prototypes and working automations using AI coding tools, Python and low-code platforms.
• Own AI evaluation: build expert-checked reference datasets, test outputs against professional criteria, and sign off on accuracy before anything goes live.
• Develop reusable prompts and automations for return review, workpaper preparation, K-1 processing, tax provision and audit testing.
• Show clients and prospects how AI can handle real tax and audit problems during demos and early discussions.
• Work with the company's domain experts, editorial staff and product teams to keep solutions consistent with the product, tax law and professional standards.

Requirements

• Required: five or more years of hands-on work in public accounting, corporate tax or audit, plus a relevant credential such as CPA, EA or CIA, or equivalent professional experience.
• Required: proven use of AI on real tax or audit work, including prompt writing, custom agents or assistants, and AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor or GitHub Copilot.
• Required: you have delivered at least one automation or AI tool that others use, and you have built evaluation datasets and test harnesses that measure accuracy, consistency and failure points.
• Required: advanced Excel skills and working knowledge of SQL or Python.
• Required: sound judgment on accuracy and risk, and on where a human must review the output.
• Required: you can turn complex workflows into practical solutions, work across disciplines and explain things clearly to clients, tax and audit leaders and engineers.
• Preferred: experience with the company's products, such as UltraTax CS, GoSystem Tax RS, ONESOURCE, Checkpoint or CoCounsel.
• Preferred: experience at a large public accounting firm or a complex corporate tax department.
• Preferred: formal programming training, a coding bootcamp or a portfolio of AI projects.
• Preferred: experience building quality assurance or professional review processes for tax or audit work.

Conditions

The role is hybrid for office-based staff, and the eligible office locations are New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Irvine (CA), McLean (VA) and Washington, DC, or one or more of them.

Base pay for those office locations is $117,700 USD to $218,600 USD. Other eligible US locations pay $102,200 USD to $189,800 USD unless stated otherwise. Ontario, Canada pays $111,400 CAD to $161,400 CAD.

Where you sit in the range depends on your knowledge, skills and experience, and on internal equity. Pay ranges are disclosed as local law requires and differ by location.

Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, sex, gender, age, religion, disability, citizen status, veteran status or other protected status, and accommodations are available during recruiting.

The company uses AI to compare your information with the role's requirements, and a person makes every final decision unless you opt out.

Benefits

• Hybrid working for office-based roles, with the office and digital tools connected.
• Flex My Way policies to support family, community and personal time, plus work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks a year.
• Grow My Way learning programs and a skills-first approach to building your capabilities.
• Flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, and resources for mental, physical and financial wellbeing.
• Retirement savings, tuition reimbursement and employee incentive programs.
• Two paid volunteer days a year through the Social Impact Institute, plus pro-bono consulting projects and ESG initiatives.
• US package: health, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, and a 401k with company match.
• US time off: vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays including two mental health days, parental leave and sabbatical leave, meeting or exceeding applicable state and local rules.
• Optional hospital, accident, sickness, life and AD&D insurance, each paid 100% by the employee, and optional Group Legal and Identity Theft Protection paid 100% by the employee.
• US extras: Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts, fitness reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, 529 plan, commuter benefits, adoption and surrogacy assistance, tuition reimbursement and Employee Stock Purchase Plan access.
• An annual bonus may be available, based on company and individual performance.