Remote: Senior State & Local Tax AI Researcher

Avalara, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Bonus potential

Paid time off

Job summary

Avalara is an AI-first company delivering global tax compliance solutions. We seek a Senior State and Local Income Tax Researcher to train AI agents on authoritative tax sources, ensuring accurate and defensible answers for complex customer inquiries.

You will design scalable workflows that combine AI, data, and automation, while mentoring teams on rigorous research methods and governance. Excellent candidates will bring 5+ years of state and local tax experience and a passion for advancing AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Tax, Accounting, Finance, or Law.
• 5+ years of state and local income tax advisory or statutory research experience.
• Ability to turn ambiguous tax authority into clear AI training content.
• Hands-on experience with prompts, validation workflows, and AI-driven processes.
• Interest in applying AI to capture and apply tax knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Train and refine AI on state and local income tax materials to answer complex questions.
• Build and own a world-class state and local income tax research product with quality standards.
• Structure authoritative sources for AI reasoning on audits, apportionment, and transfer pricing.
• Develop reusable prompt libraries, validation frameworks, and quality-review standards.
• Establish measurable quality benchmarks with traceability to primary sources.
• Review AI outputs against primary sources to ensure defensibility.
• Identify high-impact AI opportunities to speed and scale research.
• Raise AI fluency by sharing governance frameworks and structured methods.
• Design workflows combining AI, automation, and existing systems to reduce manual effort.

Skills

Tax knowledge

AI tooling experience

Prompts design

Validation frameworks

Structured data workflows

Education

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

J.D./LL.M./M.S. in Taxation (preferred)

Tools

Knowledge management systems

JSON/XML data formats

Legal research platforms

Job description

Avalara is an AI-first company delivering global tax compliance solutions. We seek a Senior State and Local Income Tax Researcher to train AI agents on authoritative tax sources, ensuring accurate and defensible answers for complex customer inquiries.

You will design scalable workflows that combine AI, data, and automation, while mentoring teams on rigorous research methods and governance. Excellent candidates will bring 5+ years of state and local tax experience and a passion for advancing AI