Senior Tax & Audit AI Engineer, FDE

Thomson Reuters • Brooklyn, NY

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Tax & Audit AI Engineer, FDE, helps tax and audit professionals turn real business challenges into reliable AI solutions. This hands-on role combines tax or audit expertise with AI tools to build automations, validate their accuracy, and deliver solutions that professionals can confidently use. The role works directly with clients, engineers, and Thomson Reuters specialists from early prototypes through deployment.

The position partners with public accounting firms and corporate tax departments to understand workflows and identify automation opportunities, while designing solutions that preserve professional judgment and incorporate controls for accuracy, risk, and professional standards. It builds prompts, AI agent instructions, prototypes, and working automations using AI coding tools, Python, and low-code platforms. The role also owns AI evaluation and accuracy validation, creating expert-validated reference datasets, testing outputs against professional criteria, and approving accuracy before deployment.

The engineer supports client demonstrations and early engagement discussions, develops reusable prompts and automations for tax and audit workflows, and collaborates with Thomson Reuters domain experts, editorial teams, and product teams to keep solutions aligned with product capabilities, tax law, and professional standards.

Requirements

• Five or more 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 real tax or audit work, including prompt engineering, custom agents or assistants, and AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot.
• Experience delivering at least one automation or AI tool used by others.
• Experience building evaluation datasets and test harnesses to measure accuracy, consistency, and failure points.
• Advanced Excel skills and working knowledge of SQL or Python.
• Strong professional judgment when assessing accuracy, managing risk, and determining where human review is necessary.
• Ability to translate complex workflows into practical solutions, collaborate across disciplines, and communicate clearly with clients, tax and audit leaders, and engineers.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Thomson Reuters products such as UltraTax CS, GoSystem Tax RS, ONESOURCE, Checkpoint, or CoCounsel.
• Experience at a large public accounting firm or a complex corporate tax department.
• Formal programming training, a coding bootcamp, or a portfolio of AI projects.
• Experience developing quality assurance or professional review processes for tax or audit work.

Responsibilities

• Partner with public accounting firms and corporate tax departments to understand workflows, identify automation opportunities, and define successful outcomes.
• Design 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, test outputs against professional criteria, and approve accuracy before deployment.
• Support client demonstrations and early engagement discussions by showing how AI can address tax and audit challenges.
• Develop reusable prompts and 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.

Benefits

• Flexible vacation and paid time off, including sick and safe time and paid holidays.
• Two company-wide Mental Health Days off annually.
• Access to the Headspace app and Employee Assistance Program.
• Retirement savings and a competitive 401(k) plan with company match.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee incentive programs and possible annual bonus based on enterprise and individual performance.
• Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• Parental leave and sabbatical leave.
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
• Fitness reimbursement.
• Commuter benefits.
• Adoption and surrogacy assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
• Flexible hybrid work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to eight weeks per year.
• Career development, continuous learning, and skills-development programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed