Tax Accountant / Specialist

About this role

**Role Overview** Mercor is collaborating with a leading AI lab to engage experienced tax professionals. You'll translate real tax compliance, provision, and planning work into structured, high-quality training data that teaches AI to reason about how tax accountants actually work. **Focus Areas** Tax — across corporate, individual, partnership / pass-through, SALT, and international sub-specialties. **Key Responsibilities** - Design realistic scenarios from your tax work — return preparation (1040 / 1120 / 1120-S / 1065), tax provision (ASC 740), responses to notices / IDRs and controversy support, tax planning and estimated payments - Review and compare AI-generated tax outputs for technical accuracy and defensible positions - Provide clear written feedback that improves how AI performs tax tasks - Collaborate asynchronously with the research team **Ideal Qualifications** - CPA or EA (Enrolled Agent) - A clear tax sub-specialty — corporate, individual, partnership, SALT, or international / cross-border - Public accounting (firm) or in-house tax experience - Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field - Strong written communication and attention to detail **Application Process** - Submit a resume or a short summary of your tax experience - Complete a short form on your practice area, specialties, and certifications - Selected applicants may complete a brief sample task

Eligible applicant countries

This role accepts applicants from:

• USA

Skills & domains

• ai-training
• rlhf
• sme
• annotation
• Finance