Remote AI Tax Research Lead — State & Local

Avalara, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 126,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

Avalara, Inc. is seeking a Senior State and Local Income Tax Researcher to train AI agents on authoritative tax materials and improve accuracy of customer answers.

You will curate tax sources, build prompts and validation frameworks, and define quality standards for AI-powered research. This role reports to the Sr. Director, Tax and is fully remote.

You will collaborate with legal, data science, and product teams to scale knowledge, reduce risk, and extend coverage across jurisdictions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of state and local income tax advisory, consulting, or statutory research experience.
• Ability to turn ambiguous state and local income tax authority into clear, well-organized content to train and improve AI accuracy.
• Hands-on experience applying AI tools: designing effective prompts, building validation frameworks, or creating structured AI workflows with measurable results.

Responsibilities

• Train and refine Avalara’s AI on authoritative state and local income tax materials (statutes, regulations, case law) to answer complex customer questions accurately.
• Build and own a world-class state and local income tax research product, defining quality standards and the roadmap for AI agents like Avi.
• Curate and structure authoritative source materials for AI agents to reason through scenarios like audit defense, corporate structuring, apportionment, and transfer pricing.
• Develop reusable prompt libraries, validation frameworks, and rigorous quality-review standards for tax‑specific AI applications.
• Establish measurable quality benchmarks and controls confirming AI answers trace back to primary legal sources.
• Review AI agent outputs against primary legal sources to ensure defensibility and compliance integrity.
• Identify high‑impact AI opportunities to improve research speed, scale, and quality.
• Raise the AI fluency of peers by sharing frameworks, governance practices, and structured research methods.
• Design and implement workflows combining AI, automation, and existing systems to eliminate manual research effort and reduce variation in outputs.

Skills

5+ years of state and local income tax

AI prompt design

AI workflows

Tax AI training content

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Tax, Accounting, Finance, or Law

Advanced degree (J.D., LL.M., or M.S. in Taxation)

Tools

JSON/XML knowledge

Legal research platforms

Job description

Avalara, Inc. is seeking a Senior State and Local Income Tax Researcher to train AI agents on authoritative tax materials and improve accuracy of customer answers.

You will curate tax sources, build prompts and validation frameworks, and define quality standards for AI-powered research. This role reports to the Sr. Director, Tax and is fully remote.

You will collaborate with legal, data science, and product teams to scale knowledge, reduce risk, and extend coverage across jurisdictions.