Accounting Expert - Tax

xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission.

Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.

xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission.

Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.

As a Tax Subject-Matter Expert, you will apply deep tax expertise to support the development of xAI’s next-generation artificial intelligence systems. In this role, you will contribute high-quality tax analysis, structured explanations, and evaluative judgment that help train AI models to reason accurately through complex tax issues.

Working in close collaboration with technical and research teams, you will evaluate sophisticated tax scenarios and guide how AI systems interpret and apply statutory authority, Treasury Regulations, IRS guidance, and judicial precedent. Your contributions will directly influence the accuracy, consistency, and interpretive quality of AI-generated tax conclusions.

You will draw on specialized expertise in individual, partnership, or corporate taxation to identify and analyze challenging tax issues comparable to advanced tax coursework, technical tax research, or professional practice analysis. This includes resolving ambiguous fact patterns, weighing alternative positions, and clearly articulating defensible tax treatments.

This role is well suited for tax professionals and educators who thrive in intellectually dynamic environments and are comfortable engaging with evolving prompts, frameworks, and research objectives. Success requires the ability to exercise professional judgment under uncertainty, communicate tax reasoning with precision, and adapt to iterative guidance, similar to developing tax policy analyses, teaching advanced tax concepts, or responding to changes in tax law and interpretation.

• Use proprietary software applications to provide input/labels on defined projects.
• Support and ensure the delivery of high-quality curated data.
• Play a pivotal role in supporting and contributing to the training of new tasks, working closely with the technical staff to ensure the successful development and implementation of cutting-edge initiatives/technologies.
• Interact with the technical staff to help improve the design of efficient annotation tools.
• Choose problems from corporate accounting fields that align with your expertise, providing rigorous solutions and model critiques where you can confidently provide detailed solutions and evaluate model responses.
• Regularly interpret, analyze, and execute tasks based on given instructions.

• 3+ years of professional experience in taxation, gained through public accounting, national or regional tax practices, specialized advisory firms, or comparable industry roles, with specialization in individual, partnership, or corporate taxation.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze income tax issues, including evaluating complex…