About this Research Engineer, AI/ML role at Tabs
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. Tabs understands customer and contract context, applies accounting logic, and executes critical workflows with built in controls, auditability, and human oversight. With Tabs, finance teams can move from manually managing revenue workflows to directing outcomes while the system executes the work.
The Job
You’ll work on a fast-moving AI team, owning problems from initial exploration through production.
Turn messy financial data and ambiguous problems into working AI products, starting with simple baselines and adding complexity only when it earns its keep
Build evaluations that reflect real user outcomes, then 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 that take real work off finance teams’ plates
What You Bring
Strong statistical and machine learning fundamentals, with good judgment about when the answer is classical ML, an LLM, agents, or something in between
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; TypeScript or modern web application experience is a plus
Experience and education
We welcome a range of backgrounds. Successful candidates will typically have one of the following:
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
How We Work
We’re a small team, so everyone has a hand in deciding what to build and making it work in the real world.
We ship, learn from real usage, and iterate
We make assumptions explicit, follow the evidence, and communicate tradeoffs clearly
We stick with hard problems and welcome better ideas, regardless of where they come from
We help where the team needs us, even when it falls outside our immediate scope
We collaborate closely in person five days a week
No one gets extra points for making the solution more complicated than the problem.
Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We care most about curiosity, craft, judgment, and drive.
Perks and Benefits (Full-time Employees)
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
Tabs is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome teammates of all identities and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We’re committed to creating an environment where everyone can grow, contribute, and feel comfortable being themselves.