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Distinguished AI Scientist

Category Data Location Mountain View, California Job ID 17246
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Company Overview

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.

Job Overview

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With over 100 million customers worldwide using our flagship products - TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. Intuit’s strategy is to be a global AI-driven expert platform delivering world-class experiences for our customers at unprecedented speed and scale. With AI at the heart of the strategy, Intuit has created a new organization led by our Chief AI Officer to drive Intuit’s evolution as a global AI technology leader through a dedicated research and innovation focus and a partnership with leading academic and industry organizations. Intuit’s AI teams have access to rich data and production grade AI platforms, enabling our scientists and engineers to move quickly from research to impact.

Job Overview

We’re seeking a visionary Distinguished AI Scientist to join Intuit’s AI, Research, and Futures organization and shape the future of Intuit’s product portfolio and expert tools by leveraging the latest research and technological advances in AI. You will be responsible for researching and solving complex, high-impact technical problems that unlock entirely new AI-driven experiences while also leading the development and deployment of new technologies and capabilities. Your work will directly shape how millions of Intuit’s customers, both small businesses and individuals, prosper through the effective use of AI  within our platforms and products.

As a key driver of Intuit’s AI strategy, you will partner with cross-functional leaders across our business units and platform teams to build and deliver AI capabilities and systems that deliver outsized customer value. You will influence our long-term AI roadmap and mentor the next generation of scientific talent.


Responsibilities

  • Define and solve Grand Challenges – complex, high-impact technical problems that unlock entirely new AI-driven experiences for our customers.
  • Define and contribute to a multi-year technical roadmap in partnership with Intuit’s AI leadership ensuring that Intuit stays on the leading edge of AI innovation through incubation and development of emerging new technologies and capabilities.
  • Build end-to-end solutions that demonstrate how the state-of-the-art research in AI can drive transformative new experiences.
  • Collaborate closely with business units and platform teams to accelerate testing and deployment of new technologies and capabilities thereby expanding Intuit’s portfolio and building durable advantage. 
  • Ensure excellence in data quality, model evaluation, and lifecycle management through rigorous monitoring, testing, and retraining practices.
  • Champion responsible AI practices, ensuring models are fair, transparent, and trustworthy.
  • Mentor and grow top scientific talent, championing a culture of innovation, ethics, and scientific rigor. 
  • Contribute to the scientific community by presenting Intuit’s AI innovations in publications, patents, and talks. 

Qualifications

  • MS / Ph.D. in Computer Science, Statistics, or Applied Mathematics with focus on Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning or equivalent experience
  • Deep technical expertise in GenAI and LLMs with in-depth understanding of areas like Reinforcement Learning, LLM fine tuning, multi-modal models. 
  • Demonstrated research experience in AI through publications at leading international journals and conferences.
  • 10+ years of experience developing and deploying AI solutions that successfully solve challenging customer problems or enable radically new experiences. 
  • Experience translating business requirements into effective working prototypes coded up in languages like Python or using modeling frameworks like TensorFlow, Pytorch.
  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional strategy and deliver solutions aligned with business goals.
  • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills with ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience with Machine Learning systems on cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure is preferred.
  • Strong Computer Science / Data Science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, performance complexity, data analysis, model training, A/B testing, and MLOps practices.


Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. The expected base pay range for this position is: 

Bay Area California $ 314,500- 425,500


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