Tax Accountant / Specialist

Role Overview

Mercor is collaborating with a leading AI lab to engage experienced tax professionals. You'll translate real tax compliance, provision, and planning work into structured, high-quality training data that teaches AI to reason about how tax accountants actually work.

Focus Areas

Tax — across corporate, individual, partnership / pass-through, SALT, and international sub-specialties.

Key Responsibilities

• Design realistic scenarios from your tax work — return preparation (1040 / 1120 / 1120-S / 1065), tax provision (ASC 740), responses to notices / IDRs and controversy support, tax planning and estimated payments
• Review and compare AI-generated tax outputs for technical accuracy and defensible positions
• Provide clear written feedback that improves how AI performs tax tasks
• Collaborate asynchronously with the research team

Ideal Qualifications

• CPA or EA (Enrolled Agent)
• A clear tax sub-specialty — corporate, individual, partnership, SALT, or international / cross-border
• Public accounting (firm) or in-house tax experience
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• Strong written communication and attention to detail

Application Process

• Submit a resume or a short summary of your tax experience
• Complete a short form on your practice area, specialties, and certifications
• Selected applicants may complete a brief sample task

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.