Accounting Expert - Faculty / Professor of Accounting

About xAI

xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.

About the Role

As an Accounting Subject-Matter Expert, you will apply your academic and teaching expertise to help advance xAI’s next-generation artificial intelligence systems. In this role, you will contribute high-quality accounting analysis, explanations, and evaluations that support the training of AI models on complex accounting concepts. Working in close collaboration with technical and research teams, you will help shape new AI capabilities by evaluating sophisticated accounting scenarios and guiding how models reason through them.

You will draw on deep knowledge of financial reporting, consolidations, internal controls, and U.S. GAAP to identify and analyze challenging accounting problems comparable to upper-division or graduate-level coursework. Your input will directly influence how effectively AI systems interpret accounting standards and communicate sound accounting judgments.

This role is well suited for faculty who thrive in intellectually dynamic environments and are comfortable engaging with evolving prompts, frameworks, and research objectives. Success requires the ability to apply accounting theory with nuance, articulate reasoning clearly, and adapt to iterative guidance, similar to refining course materials or responding to emerging accounting guidance.

Responsibilities

• Use proprietary software applications to provide input/labels on defined projects.

• Support and ensure the delivery of high-quality curated data.

• Play a pivotal role in supporting and contributing to the training of new tasks, working closely with the technical staff to ensure the successful development and implementation of cutting-edge initiatives/technologies.

• Interact with the technical staff to help improve the design of efficient annotation tools.

• Choose problems from corporate accounting fields that align with your expertise, providing rigorous solutions and model critiques where you can confidently provide detailed solutions and evaluate model responses.

• Regularly interpret, analyze, and execute tasks based on given instructions.

Required Qualifications

• PhD or DBA in Accounting, or a Master’s degree in Accounting combined with a CPA license and substantial professional experience.

• Ability to analyze and explain complex GAAP issues clearly and rigorously, consistent with upper-division or graduate-level instruction.

• Strong written communication skills in English, with the ability to articulate accounting judgments in both formal, technical contexts and instructional explanations.

• Familiarity with authoritative accounting and financial reporting resources, such as FASB Codification, SEC EDGAR, and public-company financial statements.

• Excellent analytical judgment, intellectual curiosity, and capacity to reason independently in situations involving ambiguity or incomplete information.

• Demonstrated interest in emerging technologies and innovation in accounting education, research, or practice.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in corporate financial accounting and reporting, grounded in professional practice within public accounting or SEC-reporting organizations, with experience addressing complex transactions, consolidations, or judgment-intensive accounting matters.

• Experience authoring or reviewing technical accounting analyses, including research memoranda, disclosure analyses, or case-based materials.

• Peer-reviewed publication(s) in academic or practitioner-oriented accounting journals, or comparable scholarly output.

• Teaching experience at the undergraduate or graduate level in financial accounting, intermediate/advanced accounting, auditing, or related subjects.

Location & Other Expectations

• This position is based fully remote.

• If you are based in the US, please note we are unable to hire in the states of Wyoming and Illinois at this time.

• We are unable to provide visa sponsorship.

• Team members are expected to work from 9:00am - 5:30pm PST for the first two weeks of training and 9:00am - 5:30pm in their own timezone thereafter.

• For those who will be working from a personal device, please note your computer must be a Chromebook, Mac with MacOS 11.0 or later, or Windows 10 or later.

Compensation

$45/hour - $100/hour

The posted pay range is intended for U.S.-based candidates and depends on factors including relevant experience, skills, education, geographic location, and qualifications. For international candidates, our recruiting team can provide an estimated pay range for your location.

Benefits:

Hourly pay is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI. Specific benefits vary by country, depending on your country of residence you may have access to medical benefits. We do not offer benefits for part-time roles.

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