Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Taxwell is a leading digital tax filing platform formed from the combination of Drake Software and TaxAct. They are seeking a Principal AI Data Scientist to lead the design, development, and deployment of AI-powered systems across the organization, focusing on both internal tools and customer-facing applications.
Responsibilities
- Design and build AI-powered tools that improve productivity across engineering and non-engineering teams (e.g., developer workflows, customer support tooling, tax development, operations, compliance, and analytics)
- Develop evaluation strategies covering model quality, retrieval optimization, benchmarking, and performance monitoring for deployed AI systems
- Develop internal AI platforms, shared services, and reusable components that enable teams to safely and effectively build AI-powered applications
- Build and maintain retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems grounded in internal documentation, codebases, tax knowledge, and proprietary data
- Partner with DevOps, platform, and security teams to ensure AI systems are scalable, observable, secure, and compliant
- Embed AI capabilities into existing Taxwell products to improve accuracy, usability, personalization, and customer outcomes
- Architect and build new customer-facing products where AI is a core differentiator, not an add-on
- Work closely with product, design, and tax domain experts to translate real user problems into effective AI powered solutions
- Ensure AI features meet high standards for reliability, explainability, and trust—especially in a regulated domain like tax
- Design and implement agent-based systems using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, ADK, or similar
- Evaluate and integrate commercial and open-source AI technologies, including frontier models and open-weight LLMs
- Establish best practices for prompt engineering, evaluation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of AI systems
- Influence AI architecture and technical direction across the organization through design review and hands-on collaboration
- Measure system effectiveness using telemetry, automated metrics, and qualitative feedback from internal and external users
Skills
- 8+ years of Data Science experience, including 3+ years' operating at a Principal or Staff-level role
- 5+ years of experience with Generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, or RAG applications, and designing, developing, and deploying AI solutions
- 3+ years of experience with AI agents and AI evaluation strategies in enterprise environments
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript
- Experience integrating AI systems with real-world applications, workflows, and data sources
- Familiarity with vector databases and embedding techniques (e.g., Pinecone, FAISS, Chroma)
- Experience deploying and operating systems on AWS, GCP, Azure, Databricks, or Snowflakes
- Strong architectural judgment and the ability to balance experimentation with production rigor
- Experience building AI platforms or internal copilots used across multiple teams or departments
- Experience developing customer-facing AI products at scale
- Background in regulated industries such as fintech, tax, or healthcare
- Experience fine-tuning or customizing open-weight models (e.g., GPT-OSS-120B, Mistral 3, GLM-4.7)
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