The Role
Lead development and validation of multi-state tax documentation and datasets for AI systems. Prepare and review SALT returns, apportionment schedules, nexus analyses, and state-specific workpapers. Conduct multi-jurisdictional research, monitor law updates, and convert tax concepts into machine-readable formats. Collaborate with data and engineering teams and provide expert feedback to improve AI-generated tax outputs and ensure data integrity.
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About TaxGPT
State and Local Tax Expert
What You'll Do
What We're Looking For
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
How We Define Success in This Role
Why Join Us
TaxGPT is revolutionizing the tax and accounting space with AI-driven solutions tailored for accountants, tax professionals, and SMBs. We are building an AI co-pilot to transform tax workflows, drive efficiency, and simplify compliance. Recently named one of Business Insider's 30 Early-Stage Startups Most Likely to Become Tech's Next Unicorns, we would love for you to join our growing team.
State and Local Tax Expert
Base Salary: 110,000-130,000
Variable Comp: 20% performance bonus of $22,000 to $26,000
Total comp: $130,000 to $156,000 + Equity
Benefits: Medical insurance, Dental, Vision, 401k + 3% match, Life insurance, equity
Travel: Once a quarter to the San Francisco headquarters
This is an AI-first role where your state and local tax expertise becomes the product. You will build the multi-state datasets, workpapers, and scenarios that teach our models how an expert reasons through compliance, and pressure-test their output to keep it accurate and defensible.
You will sit on our product team and partner closely with engineering, with significant ownership over the SALT content that powers the product.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in state and local tax compliance and consulting.
- Proven track record preparing and reviewing multi-state income, franchise, sales and use, and other state and local tax returns for individuals, small businesses, and mid-sized entities.
- Demonstrated expertise in developing comprehensive state and local tax workpapers, including apportionment schedules, nexus analyses, and state-specific adjustments.
- Strong background conducting state and local tax research to resolve complex technical issues across multiple jurisdictions.
- Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated tax content, identifying errors, omissions, and edge cases, and apply your SALT expertise to validate and improve it.
- Hands-on experience managing clients with multi-state tax obligations, including coordinating compliance across multiple jurisdictions and addressing varying state requirements.
- Experience serving clients across diverse industries with a focus on individuals and small to medium-sized businesses.
- CPA, EA, or equivalent certification preferred.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
- Proficient in using tax and accounting software, along with collaboration tools like Slack, Google Workspace, and Fathom.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with indirect tax automation tools or SALT-focused technology solutions.
- Background in startups or fast-paced, tech-driven environments.
A strong State and Local Tax SME in this role:
- Produces validated, authority-backed SALT datasets and workpapers (income, franchise, and sales and use) that pass review with minimal rework.
- Reliably catches errors, omissions, and edge cases in AI-generated SALT output before it ships, and can explain the correct treatment with authority.
- Builds fact patterns and answer keys that become a primary source in our SALT training and evaluation sets, improving model accuracy on the tasks they own.
- Keeps our datasets current as multi-state laws change, and translates complex tax concepts clearly for product and engineering partners.
This is your chance to apply your expertise beyond client work, impacting how thousands of professionals use AI to simplify tax compliance and planning.
The base pay range for this role is $110,000 to $130,000 per year.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in state and local tax compliance and consulting.
- Proven experience preparing and reviewing multi-state income, franchise, sales and use tax returns.
- Experience developing state-specific workpapers, apportionment schedules, nexus analyses, and adjustments.
- Strong background conducting multi-jurisdictional state and local tax research.
- Ability to critically evaluate and validate AI-generated tax content.
- Hands-on experience managing clients with multi-state tax obligations.
- Experience serving individuals and small to medium-sized business clients across industries.
- Proficient in tax and accounting software and collaboration tools (Slack, Google Workspace, Fathom).
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
- CPA, EA, or equivalent certification.
- Experience with indirect tax automation tools or SALT-focused technology solutions.
- Background in startups or fast-paced, tech-driven environments.
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The Company
What We Do
TaxGPT is automating tax filing with AI to save Americans two billion hours annually. Ask your tax questions at TaxGPT.com
