AI Engineer - Document Intelligence & Tax Data Extraction

Latitude; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000,000 - 200,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Latitude in Chicago is seeking an experienced AI Engineer to design and build the intelligence layer for a document-to-return workflow, focusing on production-grade AI systems that transform financial and tax documents into structured data.

You will implement LLM-powered document understanding, extraction, and agent-based workflows with human-in-the-loop review, ensuring accuracy, traceability, and observability in production.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building production AI, machine learning, or intelligent automation systems.
• Hands-on experience with document OCR, document understanding, parsing, and structured data extraction.
• Experience with PDFs, forms, scanned documents, financial documents, or other unstructured data.
• Strong knowledge of LLM-based document processing and modern AI techniques for extraction and reasoning.
• Experience designing and implementing evaluation frameworks for AI or ML systems.
• Experience building or working with agentic AI systems and human-in-the-loop workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build production systems for document classification, OCR, parsing, and structured data extraction.
• Process PDFs, scanned documents, tax forms, financial statements, receipts, and other unstructured financial information.
• Design extraction workflows that preserve source context, handle ambiguity, and route low-confidence results for human review.
• Develop LLM-powered document understanding and intelligent extraction capabilities.
• Build AI agents that analyze completed returns against source documents and relevant tax context.
• Identify missing information, inconsistencies, potential errors, and present findings clearly for professional review.

Skills

Production AI

Machine Learning

Intelligent automation

OCR

Document understanding

LLM processing

Job description

Latitude in Chicago is seeking an experienced AI Engineer to design and build the intelligence layer for a document-to-return workflow, focusing on production-grade AI systems that transform financial and tax documents into structured data.

You will implement LLM-powered document understanding, extraction, and agent-based workflows with human-in-the-loop review, ensuring accuracy, traceability, and observability in production.