Tax Analyst

Juno is hiring a Tax Analyst to join our Applied Systems Readiness (ASR) team, part of Juno’s Engineering department, to help ensure the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of our AI-driven tax platform. Location: Hybrid at one of our office hubs (San Diego, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Miami, or Minneapolis), or fully remote (U.S.) if you’re not near a hub

Role Overview:

Juno is hiring a Tax Analyst to join our Applied Systems Readiness (ASR) team, part of Juno’s Engineering department, to help ensure the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of our AI-driven tax platform. You’ll work side by side with our engineers as the tax expert in the room, helping them build out and stress-test tax software integrations, mappings, and tax logic before they ship. ASR is the team that decides whether what we build is ready. We validate tax logic, pressure-test returns before they reach firms, and own the quality loop that keeps Juno’s first-pass accuracy high. This role sits at the intersection of tax, systems, and product quality, and is ideal for a tax professional who enjoys validating logic, working through edge cases, and thinking holistically about how tax data flows through a system. Strong tax fundamentals, curiosity, and an ownership mindset matter most; experience with tax software platforms or startups is a plus, but not required.

What You’ll Do

• Work directly with engineers as an embedded tax expert, helping them scope, build out, and stress-test tax software integrations, field mappings, and tax logic, and turning tax rules into clear requirements and test cases
• Validate the platform end-to-end with a tax-correctness lens, from document upload through AI extraction, validation, tax logic, tax software export, and return generation
• Stress-test complex scenarios across both individual (1040) and business entity returns (1065, 1120, 1120S), including multi-state returns, K-1s, investments, depreciation, partner/shareholder allocations, balance sheet and P&L mappings, and edge cases
• Support engineers with in-depth tax research on complex edge cases, helping diagnose and resolve escalated customer support tickets and making sure the fix holds up across similar returns
• Validate exports and tax logic across professional tax software platforms including Drake, ProConnect, Lacerte, UltraTax, CCH Axcess, and ProSeries
• Build and curate “golden” test datasets and expected-result benchmarks that feed our accuracy evals, turning recurring issues and real return scenarios into reusable test cases
• Run release QA cycles, daily regression tests, and full test preps each sprint
• Partner with Product and Customer Success to ensure consistent behavior across tax software mappings, preparer data that is pulled and validated, reviewer gotcha checks, and advisor and assistant AI responses
• Research and document tax logic decisions, QA findings, and edge cases so the team’s knowledge compounds over time

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of experience in tax preparation, accounting, or audit
• CPA or EA (active or in progress)
• Strong understanding of federal and state returns, across individual and business entity returns
• Experience with one or more professional tax software platforms (Drake, ProConnect, Lacerte, UltraTax, CCH, and ProSeries)
• Background at a tax, accounting, or auditing firm
• Exceptional attention to detail and strong analytical thinking
• Ability to work independently, take ownership, and operate comfortably in a remote startup environment

Nice-to-Haves (Not Required)

• Experience working with or alongside an engineering, product, or IT team in any capacity (e.g., software implementations, systems testing, requirements gathering, or tax technology projects)
• Familiarity with AI-powered productivity tools and an interest in applying emerging AI technologies to tax and accounting workflows
• Experience with multiple professional tax software platforms
• Experience preparing or reviewing 1040 and business entity returns (1065, 1120, 1120S)
• Bachelor’s in Accounting
• Interest in AI-driven products and modern tax technology