Senior AI Engineer (Remote)

This role is part of the Jobright TNT — the private hiring network connecting top talent with top AI startups like Perplexity, Mercor, Cresta, Suno, and 150+ more. Only select, high-signal candidates are invited and recommended directly to hiring teams.

About the Company

Deduction.com is building the AI tax accountant for consumers, making expert tax advice, planning, and filing available year-round without the cost or wait of a traditional CPA. The company is $9M funded by top investors and angels from OpenAI, Robinhood, and Rocket Lawyer, and was founded by Sai Dhanak, a serial entrepreneur with 2 prior exits who helped scale Latch from seed to NASDAQ.

Why Join Us

• Build one of the most compelling AI consumer fintech products: the first AI tax accountant for everyday consumers.
• Work in a small, high-ownership team where engineers don’t just implement—they define systems, make decisions, and own outcomes end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Architect & Scale AI Systems: Work closely with the Founding AI Engineer to evolve AI systems into a robust, governed, cutting-edge platform.
• Harden the Reasoning & Context Layer: Design sophisticated context engineering systems—managing memory and state while improving reliability, performance, and user experience.
• Build a Multi-Layered Evaluation Platform: Design and implement a robust system for continuous quality improvement, leveraging comprehensive offline test suites, LLM-as-a-judge scoring (AI Auditor), and production-based CPA moderation to create a data flywheel.
• Full-Stack AI Delivery: Write production-ready TypeScript (Node.js), ensuring AI features are seamlessly integrated into the core fintech platform.
• Security-First Design: Ensure context boundaries and data retrieval paths natively enforce strict security, privacy, and compliance guardrails to protect client data.
• Lead AI-Native Development: Set the standard for using AI to build AI—leveraging advanced coding assistants and automated testing to maintain high velocity and socializing best practices across the team.

Requirements

• Production AI Experience: A track record of taking AI features beyond 'demo-ware' and into production at scale.
• Context Engineering & AI Orchestration Mastery: Proven experience building systems where the primary challenge is managing context, memory, and state at scale.
• Collaborative Architect: Enjoy working closely with other senior leads to brainstorm, peer-review, and iterate on complex system designs.
• The Stack: TypeScript (Node.js), production experience with AI orchestration and evaluation, and familiarity with observability tooling.
• Fintech/Regulated Context: Understand that in tax, 'mostly right' is wrong and have the discipline required for building in a regulated space.
• Growth Mindset: Ready to go from zero → one → scale with minimal friction, leaning into the evolving nature of the AI stack.
• Early-Stage Appetite: Thrive in environments where priorities shift fast and scope isn’t always locked; prefer shipping, experimenting, and iterating over waiting for a perfect spec.
• Actively use AI tools as a core part of your development workflow (not optional).
• Believe the software engineer's job is fundamentally changing—and lean into that shift.

Pay

$175K/yr - $250K/yr