Applied Financial Services Researcher

Why Accordance

Accordance is a secure AI platform for professionals in accounting and finance that augments productivity and automates complex workflows. Accordance uses algorithms with reasoning-adept LLMs that have been customized by our expert team of finance professionals, engineers, and research scientists. We’ve found product-market fit and are scaling our team very quickly. Some reasons to join Accordance are:

• Exceptional product-market fit: We have partnered with the largest accounting firms and professional service providers in the world.
• Strategic investors: Raised from top strategic investors.
• World-class team: Accordance is hiring the best technical and non-technical talent from places like OpenAI, FAIR, Flexport, DeepMind, Google Brain, and Stanford AI Laboratory (SAIL).
• Partnerships: Our engineers and researchers work directly with Microsoft and OpenAI to build the future of generative AI and redefine professional services.
• Value: Top of market cash and equity compensation.

About the Role

We are looking for a financial services & accounting researcher with a strong understanding of how large firms and other organizations deliver professional services and execute complex finance, accounting, and knowledge work tasks. We have incredible product-market fit & demand across diverse customer profiles. Executing on this demand requires a strong understanding of our customer’s workflows and how those workflows can be accelerated by AI systems.

To facilitate the development of these systems, you will:

• Work with clients to understand their workflows and develop subject matter expertise on high value problems at leading professional services firms
• Translate these problems into AI systems and work closely with our ML research team to define and develop these systems
• Elucidate and develop expertise from generalist models through prompt engineering and fine-tuning
• Build proprietary internal benchmarks to evaluate models and model systems
• Receive and integrate feedback from clients into research and development processes to define and achieve positive outcomes
• Tackle unsolved AI product problems — user experiences for million-token many-step agents, instant retrieval over huge TB datasets, etc.
• Work closely with our founders, execs, and research teams

The role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Qualifications

• 3-7 years of experience at a large financial services or accounting firm or equivalent professional service provider
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high quality work product on demanding deadlines
• Ability to effectively communicate with both clients and internal stakeholders and translate seamlessly and effectively between both groups
• Ability to define positive outcomes in situations with underspecified success criteria
• Willingness and desire to do work in the trenches — e.g., grading hundreds of answers, breaking down thousands of documents — getting the models to do junior associate work requires a lot of things that look like junior associate work

Accordance is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.