Tally

AI accounting

Applied AI Engineer

$150K - $220K / 1.00% - 3.00%
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
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Rami Ghanem
Rami Ghanem
Founder

About the role

As Founding Applied AI Engineer at Tally, you’ll play a crucial role in building at the cutting edge of AI + accounting (across bookkeeping, tax, audit, advisory), including agentic systems for document extraction and organization, data analysis, browser automation, materials/work product preparation, reasoning, and other multi-step workflows across the accounting stack. We’re well funded by top investors and have years of runway.

As Founding Applied AI Engineer, you will:

  • Contribute to the technical vision and product direction as a core team member
  • Design, develop, test, and support features for our web and backend applications
  • Architect and build cutting-edge agentic systems for dozens of workflows
  • Fine-tune models, optimize AI systems for reliability and performance, and continuously refine
  • Work with the latest, SOTA large language models and cutting edge AI
  • Take ownership of projects from concept to production
  • Collaborate directly with our customers and design partners
  • Forward-deploy with customers to understand and build around their workflows

Who you are:

  • Customer and product obsessed
  • Excited about solving unsolved problems
  • Capable of growing into a leadership position and running an engineering team
  • Have 4+ years of startup engineering experience
  • Has studied CS/AI or has equivalent experience
  • Have built and shipped AI products to end users from 0 to 1
  • Are fast at 0 to 1, but also thoughtful about how your technical decisions will scale over time
  • Intellectually curious and keep up with the latest advancements in AI/ML frameworks and models

Benefits and work environment:

  • Medical, vision, and dental insurance
  • SF private office, lunches and snacks
  • Take what you need PTO

About Tally

AI accounting

Tally
Founded:2025
Batch:W25
Team Size:1
Status:
Active
Founders
Rami Ghanem
Rami Ghanem
Founder