Rahul
Computer Scientist

My job title is Computer Scientist. As the name sort of implies, I do
work relating to computers as they apply to tax processing/tax data
processing. It’s a research position. My job involves finding creative
ways to go through all the data and find noncompliance or maybe
come up with ways of better serving the taxpayer. Anything that is
new, that applies new computer science techniques to problems that IRS faces.


I never knew the federal government had positions like these. When you
think of IRS you think of people who audit you and process your tax returns.
But the IRS has a whole office of research which does research work and
applies really advanced computer science techniques to tax processing.
So there are lots of opportunities -opportunities that one doesn’t know
really exist.

There’s a wide range of possibilities. If you like to develop software you’ve
got opportunities to develop software. If you like to upgrade, if you like to
maintain computers, if you like to take care of the IT needs, there are
plenty of opportunities for IT professionals.

Technology is evolving everyday and the IRS recognizes that. It has given
us the opportunity to go and learn newer technologies, new languages,
new tools and apply them to the problems it’s trying to solve.