Hey we’re Additive 👋 We’re building tools that give superpowers to tax professionals.

Accounting services is a $600BB market with a dire talent shortage and overwhelmingly manual workflows without tooling. Additive is delivering on an incredibly complex AI challenge to multiply accountants’ impact on a process that touches 1 in 5 US dollars yearly. As software engineers, complicated real world systems require the most creativity and discipline to model accurately - and solving this problem also provides unparalleled access to the real dynamics of America’s financial system. If you want to understand the "operating system" of the USA, this is one of your best chances to get a first row seat while solving exceptional AI challenges.

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Role

Founding Product ML Software Engineer

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<aside> 📍 Location

San Francisco, 5 days a week in office. Additive can cover relocation costs to the Bay Area.

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<aside> ⚡ Compensation & Benefits

We believe team members should be fairly compensated. We offer very competitive salary and equity - as well as health, vision, and dental insurance. Benefits also include 401k and an Equinox membership. Lunch and dinner onsite are provided daily.

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<aside> ➕ More about Additive

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Website

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<aside> <img src="/icons/mail_gray.svg" alt="/icons/mail_gray.svg" width="40px" /> If this is interesting, please reach out to [email protected] with your LinkedIn and evidence of exceptional ability 🚀

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Founding Team

Dwight Crow, three times founder. Previously founded and sold Whisper, an AI based medical device company. Before this, he had sold another AI company to FB where he led the e-Commerce product for 110% year on year growth.

Aaron Taylor, Senior Director of Generative AI at Salesforce. Head of Engineering at two prior AI startups which were acquired, one of which dealt with AI NLP system for the defense community.

Venky Iyer, Early FB engineer (2008) onward, led the entities team using ML to power FB’s profiles and Likes system. Engineering leader at Fin Exploration Company directing efforts of 20+ ML & automation engineers.

Pete Toporzycki, PwC tax senior manager with experience both in leadership at the PwC Products & Technology Group, as well as managing 100+ diligence projects and 20 and structuring initiatives in the M&A group.

Funding

We've just raised +$6MM of funding from Elad Gil, Blake Byers, and other top angels such as Naval Ravikant (CEO AngelList), Lukas Biewald (CEO Weights & Biases), Robert Nishihara (CEO Anyscale), Fred Ehrsam (Founder Coinbase), Immad Akhund (CEO Mercury), Henry Kravis (of KKR), etc in a meaningfully oversubscribed round.

What working at Additive is like

Here are our core values.

<aside> 🚀 Championship-winning mindset We’re here to build something incredible - and we do what it takes to achieve this. Outstanding performance is the expectation.

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<aside> 💪 Tenacious We’re willing to do hard, unglamorous tasks and stick through tough times.

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<aside> ⚽ Team First We’re low-ego. The team and mission succeeding is what comes first.

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<aside> ➕ Accountant Obsessed Additive exists to 10x accountants. We all interact directly with accountants on a regular basis to understand and improve their world.

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<aside> 🤟 Genuine Fun We’re having fun. It’s a grand adventure together, and we’re going to surmount never before seen challenges with wonderful teammates.

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About You

You are an exceptional builder who wants outsized responsibility and impact, and have a demonstrated history of thoughtful and pragmatic decision making. You have solved hard ML problems such as ranking, recommendation, or NER in commercial or consumer products, and an ability to collaboratively solve tough problems with minimal supervision. We should also really enjoy working together - life is too short to not genuinely be excited about your team.