--- title: 'Sr. Engineering Manager at Additive AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/sr-engineering-manager-additive-ai-san-francisco-mzarrentmxxc' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-08' --- # Sr. Engineering Manager at Additive AI - **Company:** Additive AI - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/additiveai/9be46501-feab-4b1c-a725-fc9d6a7e0f25 ## Job description ## About Additive Additive builds AI-powered tools that give tax professionals superpowers. Tax and accounting is a $600B+ market with a severe talent shortage and too many manual, repetitive workflows. Our systems turn dense, often unstructured tax documents into trustworthy structured data and AI-native preparation and review experiences. The performance of the product we put in the hands of accountants is the most important metric for our team. Outputs must be trustworthy under filing-season deadlines. The cost of being wrong is high: a plausible but incorrect extraction can waste hours of professional review, misstate a tax position, or flow into a filed return. We use extensive in-house datasets, rigorous evaluation suites, and deep, collaborative customer partnerships to decide what is ready to ship and where to invest next. As part of Thomson Reuters, we pair startup speed and individual ownership with deep tax expertise, established customer relationships, and a path to rapidly deploy into real tax workflows at scale. In this environment, our team can build quickly, learn directly from customers, and distribute what works. Today, Additive products are used daily at scale by many of the biggest accounting firms in the country. The Opportunity We are hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to be a hands-on player-coach for one of Additive’s engineering teams. You will directly manage a team of 4-6 that will grow up to 10-12 engineers, primarily at the staff and principal level, while remaining an active technical contributor. You will be especially close to the code during your first three to six months as you build context and credibility. Our engineers own outcomes end to end, from understanding a tax professional’s workflow to rollout and measurable customer impact. Your role is to raise the technical and product bar, develop exceptional engineers and future leaders, and help the team move quickly without becoming its decision-making hub. We measure leadership contribution by team output, customer impact, and talent density, not headcount or hierarchy. 📍Role Snapshot - Level: Senior Engineering Manager; hands-on player-coach - Reports to: Aaron Taylor - Technical surface: Document ingestion and extraction, tax-data systems, AI-native preparation and review, evaluation infrastructure, and platform reliability - Location: Downtown San Francisco, five days per week We build through tight collaboration among engineering, product, tax experts, and customers. Working together in person helps us make faster decisions, pair on difficult problems, coach in the moment, and maintain shared context. Additive can cover relocation costs for moving to the San Francisco area. ## What You Will Own - Build and ship. Contribute directly to technical design, implementation, debugging, testing, and release work. Stay fluent in the codebase and step into the highest-leverage technical problems without becoming the team’s bottleneck. Guide effective AI-driven development throughout all aspects of the development lifecycle. Choose the pragmatic, boring option when that ships reliable value to customers faster. - Develop exceptional engineers. Set clear expectations, give direct and personal feedback, coach technical and product judgment, address performance or interpersonal issues early, and help engineers grow into larger leadership roles. - Make evals part of product development. Establish and refine what we measure, why it matters, and how evaluation signals become release decisions, product priorities, and durable regression guardrails. Turn production failures and customer feedback into representative test cases, datasets, and metrics. - Turn strategy into owned outcomes. Define clear finish lines, ownership, milestones, and lightweight operating rhythms. Improve forecasting, surface risk early, and preserve flexibility in how engineers solve problems. - Stay close to customers and the product. Spend time with tax professionals and customer-facing teams, understand their workflows, and make sound product calls when there is no product manager in the room. - Grow a high-talent-density team. Own hiring, candidate assessment, closing, onboarding, and interviewer calibration. Create an environment where exceptional individual contributors want to work and where adding people follows impact, not empire building. ## What We Are Looking For You have: - Written meaningful production software within recent years and can still review a design, read a pull request, debug a difficult issue, and hold your own in a technical debate with a senior engineer. - Directly managed experienced engineers while continuing to contribute technically, with a track record of improving both individual growth and team output. - Shipped customer-facing, eval-driven products and connected engineering decisions to adoption, trust, revenue, or operational outcomes. - Strong product and customer judgment, including experience connecting engineering decisions to adoption, trust, revenue, or operational outcomes. - Experience in both operating with startup urgency as well as navigating the stakeholders, governance, security, and dependencies of a larger enterprise. Helpful, not required: Experience with Python, TypeScript, cloud infrastructure, agentic or retrieval-based systems, document AI, tax technology, or enterprise data products. Core Values - Championship-winning mindset: We’re here to build something incredible - and we do what it takes to achieve this. Outstanding performance is the expectation. - Team First: We’re low-ego. Our pride comes from the team and mission succeeding. - Tenacious: We’re willing to do hard, unglamorous tasks and stick through tough times. - Accountant Obsessed: Additive exists to 10x accountants. We all interact directly with accountants on a regular basis to understand and improve their world. - 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. At Additive we value diversity and are committed to an inclusive workplace. Additive is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic under federal, state, or local law. If you require an accommodation during the job application process, please notify jobs@additive.ai for support. ## About Additive AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Additive AI builds a generative AI-native platform that automates tax document processing—specifically ingesting and parsing complex K-1, K-3, and related forms—for tax and accounting professionals. - **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Thomson Reuters in September 2025) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Dwight Crow, Venky Iyer, Aaron Taylor ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Tax technology, AI-powered document processing, accounting software - **Target customers**: B2B – Big 4 accounting firms, top 20 accounting firms, family offices, private wealth management groups, asset and wealth management firms - **Mission**: Remove the friction that keeps tax and accounting professionals from doing their best work by automating repetitive data entry tasks ## Products & Services - **Additive Platform**: A GenAI-native SaaS tool that extracts data from tax documents (K-1, K-3, 1065, 8865, 1041, 1120‑S, 65 state forms, etc.) with over 99% accuracy on income characters and over 95% on footnotes. Supports export to PDF, JSON, or Excel Workpapers. Includes an Excel Add-In and API for integration into existing workflows. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (acquired by Thomson Reuters; transaction terms not publicly reported) - **Key Metric**: Seed round raised (1 investor); acquired by Thomson Reuters in September 2025 - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Thomson Reuters (acquirer); partnered with RSM US LLP (announced November 2024); trusted by Big 4 accounting firms - **Growth Signals**: Acquired by Thomson Reuters within ~2 years of founding; headcount grew 23.5% YoY to 18 employees (as of mid-2025); LinkedIn reported 1,252 followers; annual web traffic up 165.4% YoY (though absolute numbers small) ## Competitive Advantages - Purpose-built GenAI for tax documents, achieving >99% accuracy on K-1 income characters and >95% on footnotes—even complex tables. - SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, security-first design trusted by Big 4 firms. - Supports the widest range of forms (federal + 65 state forms) and exports directly into tax software workflows. - “No training required” drag-and-drop interface, with an Excel Add-In and API for seamless integration. ## Strategic Focus - Scale impact through Thomson Reuters’ global distribution, putting AI-powered document processing in the hands of many more firms. - Continue to automate the most labor-intensive tax forms (K-1s, K-3s) to help firms do more with less amid staffing constraints and compressed filing timelines. - Elevate advisory work by freeing tax professionals from manual data entry. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Small, nimble team (18 employees) with a strong technical focus (33% in technical roles, ~43% specialists). Former staff come from major firms (PwC, EY, Deloitte, Anthropic, OpenAI). Notable alumni destination is Thomson Reuters. - **Remote/Hybrid**: Headquarters in San Francisco; likely hybrid/remote-friendly given tech-forward profile (office locations in San Francisco only). - **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Heavy use of modern AI/ML stack (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, React). Focus on solving concrete, high-value problems for professionals. Being part of Thomson Reuters provides scale and resources while maintaining startup pace. ## Sources 1. [additive.ai](https://www.additive.ai/) – Product features, accuracy claims, security compliance 2. [LinkedIn – Additive | Part of Thomson Reuters](https://www.linkedin.com/company/additiveai) – Headcount, founders, acquisitions, company details 3. [Thomson Reuters press release (Sept 16, 2025)](https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/press-releases/2025/september/thomson-reuters-acquires-additive-a-specialist-in-ai-powered-tax-document-processing) – Acquisition announcement, mission, product description 4. 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