[Hiring] Senior Accounting Engineer @Oath

Role Description

Oath is building AI that transforms the audit industry. We're looking for a senior accounting and audit professional to own the work where clients, audit judgment, and AI meet:

• Leading client engagements end to end.
• Standing behind the verification and audit procedures that keep our work defensible.
• Setting the methodology that engineering and product build into our AI systems.

This isn't a traditional senior or manager role. You won't spend your days reviewing a staff team's workpapers. You'll:

• Decide how AI should perform an audit procedure.
• Define what "right" looks like.
• Prove it with evidence a reviewer, regulator, or peer reviewer would accept.

This is an early, senior hire at a startup. Expect wide scope, real ambiguity, and direct influence over how the firm and the platform work. We're looking for people who turn hard, unstructured problems into systems others can rely on.

Qualifications

• 2–6 years of relevant experience for Accounting Engineer.
• 6–10+ years of relevant experience; CPA required for Senior Accounting Engineer.

Requirements

• Own a portfolio of client relationships from onboarding through engagement completion and renewal.
• Lead complex, high-stakes, or first-of-kind engagements.
• Explain AI-generated work product to client finance teams and fund managers.
• Turn patterns across clients into product and process changes.
• Plan engagements: assess risk, set materiality and scope procedures.
• Act as reviewer on verification and audit procedures and AI-generated workpapers.
• Make and document judgment calls on sufficiency and appropriateness of evidence.
• Track AICPA auditing and attestation standards and firm quality management policies.
• Write and maintain the audit methodology, work programs, and quality review standards.
• Define accuracy requirements with engineering and product.
• Build modules and prototypes using AI and technology tools.
• Decide when a new AI-assisted procedure is ready for client use.
• Build feedback loops for continuous improvement.
• Mentor Accounting Engineers and review their work.
• Help hire, interview, and onboard new team members.
• Grow our internal knowledge base.

Benefits