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Director, Applied Research

United States of America, New York, New York💼 Full-time💰 $198,200–$198,200🗓 2026-08-05 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead a high-performing applied science team developing agentic AI solutions for tax, audit, and accounting professionals.

Role type

Director, Applied Research (Agentic AI)

Builds

Next-generation agentic AI workflows for tax and accounting products (Checkpoint, CoCounsel Tax, OneSource)

Domain

Tax, Audit, Accounting, Legal

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM-based and agentic AI system development, team leadership, product strategy, technical decision-making, stakeholder management

Preferred skills

Information retrieval, NLP, knowledge graphs, neuro-symbolic approaches, AI agent evaluation, synthetic data generation

Technologies

LLMs, agentic AI frameworks, knowledge graphs

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a high-performing applied science team, drive design and delivery of AI features for high-stakes settings, serve as strategic thought partner on AI strategy, influence product strategy with technical insights, improve R&D and product engineering ways of working, engage domain experts in concept development

Seniority

Director, hands-on IC with team leadership

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