What the work involves

You write and evaluate. On the authoring side, you take situations you've genuinely worked through — a modification to a multi-element arrangement under ASC 606, a lease reassessment triggered by a renewal option, a Type I versus Type II business combination measurement-period adjustment — and turn them into structured prompts with a defensible expected answer and supporting citation trail. On the evaluation side, you receive AI-generated memos, disclosure drafts, and schedules and judge whether the conclusion is standards-accurate, whether the reasoning path would survive review by a technical accounting group, and whether the support cited actually says what the model claims it says.

The written feedback matters as much as the score. Researchers want to know why a model's ASC 718 modification accounting went wrong — bad classification, wrong measurement date, plausible-sounding fabricated guidance reference — not just that it did. Most graders can spot a wrong answer; the value here is diagnosing wrong reasoning that reached a right answer.

What the screen looks for

  • Genuine technical depth over audit generalism. Expect follow-ups that push past "I worked on revenue recognition" into how you handled a specific judgment, what the alternative treatment was, and why you landed where you did.
  • Ability to state a position and defend it when the interviewer pushes back — and to concede when a pushback is correct.
  • Writing that a reviewer could act on: specific, cited, unhedged.
  • CPA and a Big 4 or public-company technical accounting/SEC reporting background are treated as baseline, not differentiators.

Logistics

Fully remote and asynchronous. Work arrives in batches; contributors commonly commit 10–20 hours per week, though volume fluctuates with the lab's research priorities and there is no guaranteed minimum. Pay in the $80–120/hr range has been observed for this role, with placement generally reflecting depth of technical-accounting exposure rather than total years of experience. Onboarding typically includes a paid or unpaid sample task before live work begins.