# AI Engineer

Professional tax preparation begins with a messy set of documents and ends with a return that must be accurate. Luca IQ is building the modern tax engine and application that makes that process faster, more reliable, and easier for tax professionals. We are looking for an AI engineer to own the intelligence layer across that workflow. You will design and maintain systems that turn documents into usable tax data, help tax professionals identify missing or inconsistent information, and review completed returns before filing. This is not a role focused on a generic chat experiences. You will build production AI systems that operate on real financial documents and work alongside a deterministic tax engine, where accuracy, traceability, and thoughtful human control matter. The Team Luca IQ was founded by Angelo Policicchio, a CPA, and Akash Sadashivapeth, who met at Harvard Business School. Our engineering team brings decades of combined experience building deterministic engines for the financial services industry, where accuracy is non-negotiable. We’re building Luca IQ because nearly every tax return prepared by a CPA in America runs through one of a handful of tax engines built in th

- **Id**: 1245541
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/luca-iq-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chicago, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T17:28:26Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T06:43:55Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
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- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Agents, Accounting & Tax Software

## Company

- **Id**: 3780058
- **Name**: Luca IQ
- **Domain**: lucaiq.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/luca-iq>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 150000
- **Max**: 180000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 180000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **OCR** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T17:28:26Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 30
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.538
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 35
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 180000
- **Is top pay**: no

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