As Founding Applied AI Engineer at Tally, you’ll play a crucial role in building at the cutting edge of AI + accounting (across bookkeeping, tax, audit, advisory), including agentic systems for document extraction and organization, data analysis, browser automation, materials/work product preparation, reasoning, and other multi-step workflows across the accounting stack. We’re well funded by top investors and have years of runway.
As Founding Applied AI Engineer, you will:
- Contribute to the technical vision and product direction as a core team member
- Design, develop, test, and support features for our web and backend applications
- Architect and build cutting-edge agentic systems for dozens of workflows
- Fine-tune models, optimize AI systems for reliability and performance, and continuously refine
- Work with the latest, SOTA large language models and cutting edge AI
- Take ownership of projects from concept to production
- Collaborate directly with our customers and design partners
- Forward-deploy with customers to understand and build around their workflows
Who you are:
- Customer and product obsessed
- Excited about solving unsolved problems
- Capable of growing into a leadership position and running an engineering team
- Have 4+ years of startup engineering experience
- Has studied CS/AI or has equivalent experience
- Have built and shipped AI products to end users from 0 to 1
- Are fast at 0 to 1, but also thoughtful about how your technical decisions will scale over time
- Intellectually curious and keep up with the latest advancements in AI/ML frameworks and models
Benefits and work environment:
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance
- SF private office, lunches and snacks
- Take what you need PTO
Compensation: $150-220k, competitive founding equity.
This role is in-office only and based in San Francisco, CA.
