Senior Tax & Audit AI Engineer, FDE
Thomson Reuters5 days ago
Base Salary
$102k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with public accounting firms and corporate tax departments to understand workflows, identify automation opportunities, and define outcomes.
- Design AI solutions that preserve professional judgment and incorporate controls for accuracy, risk, and professional standards.
- Build prompts, AI agent instructions, prototypes, and working automations using AI coding tools, Python, and low-code platforms.
- Create expert-validated reference datasets and test harnesses, evaluate outputs, and approve accuracy before deployment.
- Support client demonstrations and early engagement discussions involving tax and audit AI solutions.
- Develop reusable automations for return review, workpaper preparation, K-1 processing, tax provision, and audit testing.
- Collaborate with Thomson Reuters domain experts, editorial teams, and product teams to align solutions with product capabilities, tax law, and professional standards.
Requirements
- At least five years of hands-on experience in public accounting, corporate tax, or audit.
- A relevant professional credential such as CPA, EA, or CIA, or equivalent depth of professional experience.
- Demonstrated experience applying AI to tax or audit work, including prompt engineering, custom agents or assistants, and AI coding tools.
- Experience delivering at least one automation or AI tool used by others and building evaluation datasets and test harnesses.
- Advanced Excel skills and working knowledge of SQL or Python.
- Strong professional judgment for assessing accuracy, managing risk, and determining when human review is needed.
- Ability to translate complex workflows into practical solutions and communicate with clients, tax and audit leaders, and engineers.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with Thomson Reuters products, large public accounting firms or complex corporate tax departments, formal programming training, a coding bootcamp, an AI project portfolio, or tax and audit quality assurance processes.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model for office-based roles with flexible work arrangements and work from anywhere for up to eight weeks per year.
- Flexible workplace policies supporting work-life balance, including two company-wide Mental Health Days.
- Career development, continuous learning, skills development, and Grow My Way programming.
- Comprehensive benefits including vacation, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, health and wellbeing resources, and access to Headspace.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
- Eligible locations include New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Irvine, McLean, Washington, DC, and Ontario, Canada.
About Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters builds research platforms, workflow software, and data services for legal, tax and accounting, compliance, and government professionals, and operates the Reuters global news service. Flagship products include Westlaw for legal research and ONESOURCE and Checkpoint for tax and accounting, sold primarily via subscriptions and enterprise licenses. A public company headquartered in Toronto, it was formed in 2008 by combining Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group and is listed on the TSX and Nasdaq as TRI.