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Founding Software Engineer, Applied AI

Recruiting from Scratch
San Francisco, CA, United States
$140K-$200K a year
Full-time

Who is Recruiting from Scratch :

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies.

Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.

Our client is looking for an in-person candidate in San Francisco, CA to join their team. This is a founding engineer role at a startup building the world's first tax-focused LLM with a focus on compliance.

Responsibilities

  • Work with our CEO and leading tax experts to apply cutting edge LLM capabilities to manual tax research processes. You’ll have the flexibility and resources to use whichever AI approaches you think are effective (RAG, fine-tuning, etc).
  • Build solutions to identify authoritative sources of tax legislation and tax rate data across the web to feed our tax-focused AI systems
  • Architect an AI-powered system that collects, monitors and processes tax rate data from around the world
  • Train a tax-focused LLM on global tax legislation and build the infrastructure to have it monitor any changes to legislation in real time
  • Expand LLM focus to include legislation in adjacent compliance areas including withholding tax, e-invoicing and more

Tech stack

Django / Python, React

Candidate requirements

  • 3+ years of experience Anyone with less than 3 years experience is going to be too green / won't know best practices around shipping quickly
  • Strong full stack expertise (Django / Python, Nextjs / React) and an interest in LLMs (prior AI experience not strictly necessary)
  • Early stage experience - a desire to own something from the early stages and grind
  • A desire to work in person in our office in SF

Nice-to-haves

Some background in the fintech or compliance realm

The salary range is $140,000 - $200,000 + Equity

19 days ago
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