Tabs
Research Engineer, AI/ML
New York City, NY. Posted a month ago
The role
You will work on a fast-moving AI team owning problems from initial exploration through production. You will turn financial data into AI products and build evaluations to improve the system.
What you will do
- Turn messy financial data and ambiguous problems into working AI products
- Build evaluations that reflect real user outcomes
- Use error analysis, ablations, and production feedback to make the system better
- Make practical tradeoffs across model quality, cost, latency, determinism, reliability, and maintainability
- Partner closely with product and engineering to build AI features
Required qualifications
- Strong statistical and machine learning fundamentals
- Experience shipping ML or AI systems end-to-end, from data and evaluation through production
- Comfort making progress with noisy data, weak labels, incomplete specifications, and imperfect supervision
- Experience across several of: classical ML, embeddings, retrieval and reranking, similarity search, model evaluation, LLM applications, and agentic systems
- Strong Python skills and the ability to contribute to production software
- A bachelor’s degree in a relevant quantitative field plus 3+ years of relevant industry or applied research experience
- A relevant master’s degree plus 1+ year of relevant industry or applied research experience
- A relevant PhD; doctoral research counts as relevant experience, with 3 years of substantive doctoral research considered equivalent to the experience above
- Equivalent practical experience demonstrated through shipped systems, independent research, open-source work, or another nontraditional path
Nice to have
- TypeScript or modern web application experience
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Up to 100% employer covered monthly healthcare premium (medical, dental, vision)
- Lunch provided via Sharebite, plus dinner for any later in office days
- Parental leave up to 12 weeks
- Tax free commuter and parking benefits
- Voluntary insurances (Life, Hospital, Critical Illness, Accident)
- Employee Assistance Program (Rightway)
- Free One Medical Membership
- 401k
About the company
Tabs is the AI Operating System for Revenue, built for modern finance and accounting teams. It combines deep revenue and accounting expertise with the agents and applications needed to run revenue work end to end.