State and Local Taxation Expert for AI Model Evaluation

Join a team dedicated to enhancing AI models'' understanding of complex state and local tax concepts. As a SALT expert, you will play a crucial role in evaluating and improving the accuracy of AI-generated responses related to multi-state tax regulations and real-world tax planning scenarios.

• Analyse and review AI-generated responses involving U.S. state and local tax issues.
• Evaluate model performance on multi-state corporate income tax, sales and use tax, and pass-through entity tax scenarios.
• Create and validate tax research questions, answer keys, and evaluation rubrics.
• Assess AI reasoning related to:
• Economic and physical nexus
• Marketplace facilitator rules
• P.L. 86-272 protections and limitations
• State conformity to federal tax law
• GILTI, Subpart F, §965, and foreign income inclusion issues
• Apportionment and sourcing methodologies
• Throwback and throwout rules
• Combined and unitary reporting
• Water''s-edge elections
• State tax withholding and mobile workforce rules
• Digital advertising taxes and emerging SALT developments
• Identify factual errors, technical inaccuracies, and incomplete legal analysis.
• Provide written feedback that improves model accuracy and legal-tax reasoning.
• Review edge cases involving conflicting state rules and evolving administrative guidance.

• CPA, JD, LLM (Tax), MST, or equivalent advanced tax credential preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in State & Local Tax (SALT).
• Experience at a Big 4 firm, national accounting firm, law firm, state revenue department, or corporate tax department strongly preferred.
• Deep expertise in several of the following:
• Nexus analysis (economic, physical, factor-presence, and remote employee nexus)
• P.L. 86-272
• State corporate income and franchise taxes
• Multi-state apportionment and sourcing
• Combined reporting and unitary business principles
• Foreign income state taxation (GILTI, Subpart F, §965, NCTI)
• State conformity and decoupling provisions
• Sales and use tax compliance
• Pass-through entity tax (PTET) regimes
• Nonresident withholding and composite filing requirements
• State tax controversy, audit defence, or litigation
• Strong tax research skills using primary authorities, state statutes, regulations, administrative guidance, and case law.
• Excellent written communication and analytical reasoning skills.
• Comfortable reviewing nuanced technical tax questions and explaining conclusions clearly.

Hourly employment with flexible remote work arrangements.

Compensation ranges from $100 to $150 per hour.

Open to qualified candidates with the specified credentials and experience.

• Help shape the next generation of AI systems used for tax research and professional reasoning.
• Work on intellectually challenging state and local tax issues spanning all major SALT domains.
• Collaborate with leading AI researchers and tax experts.
• Opportunity to influence how advanced AI systems understand complex tax law and compliance frameworks.