AI Engineer: Tax Document Intelligence

Trylucaiq; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Luca IQ is seeking an AI engineer to own the intelligence layer across the tax preparation workflow. You will design systems to turn documents into usable tax data, help professionals identify missing information, and review returns before filing.

This role focuses on production AI systems with accuracy, traceability, and clear boundaries between suggestions and final decisions. You will work on document collection, extraction, and agentic return review, collaborating with tax professionals and

Qualifications

• Experience with PDF, forms, and scanned documents for extraction.
• Experience with modern LLM-based document understanding and parsing.
• Strong judgment on evaluating design, observability, reproducibility, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Bias toward shipping and learning from real-world document and model behavior with high accuracy and auditability.

Responsibilities

• Document collection and classification: build systems to collect client documents and identify what they are.
• Extraction and normalization: turn documents into reliable data and route low-confidence results for human review.
• Agentic return review: build agents that examine returns and propose corrections for professionals.
• The AI experience: shape how professionals understand and trust AI output with citations and review workflows.
• Evaluation and reliability: build measurement, observability, and feedback systems to track quality and outcomes.

Skills

Document OCR

Data extraction

LLM methods

Observability

Human-in-the-loop

Evaluation frameworks

Auditability

Reliability

Job description

Luca IQ is seeking an AI engineer to own the intelligence layer across the tax preparation workflow. You will design systems to turn documents into usable tax data, help professionals identify missing information, and review returns before filing.

This role focuses on production AI systems with accuracy, traceability, and clear boundaries between suggestions and final decisions. You will work on document collection, extraction, and agentic return review, collaborating with tax professionals and