Principal Architect, Innovation Research

Job Overview

Join Intuit's innovative Futures organization in our cutting-edge Israel team! Our mission is to lead the industry in solving the most pressing financial challenges faced by small business owners and consumers, empowering them to prosper. The Futures team is dedicated to incubating emerging technologies, user experiences, capabilities, and products that hold the potential to transform the lives of Intuit's small businesses and customers.

We are currently seeking a Principal Engineer to join our dynamic, intra-preneurial team. In this role, you will be responsible for shaping and launching the next generation of customer experiences for Intuit's flagship products and technology platform. This is a unique opportunity to become a part of a multidisciplinary team of designers, engineers, data scientists, researchers, and analysts, all working together to create game-changing experiences for Intuit.

Responsibilities

• Drives significant technology initiatives end-to-end, including horizontal layers of the architecture
• Understands customer behaviors and partners with cross-functional partners to influence and drive end-to-end solutions for customer problems
• Drives design and implementation of durable software solutions that will solve critical customer problems in a fast-paced environment
• Executes with a boundaryless mindset and contributes to solutions outside of their primary area of ownership.
• Passionate for continuous learning, experimenting, and applying cutting-edge technology and software paradigms to solve customer problems

Knowledge of building AI-native applications:

• Guides the applicability of AI to customer problems through a deep understanding of the value and limitations of AI technologies
• Understands evaluation tools to validate and measure the accuracy of solutions
• High-level understanding of how AI models work, the different types of AI models that exist, and their pros and cons
• Understanding of the latest tools and technologies that apply AI to real-world applications

Team Collaboration:

• Partners with other groups both inside and outside of Intuit for cross-functional design, development, and integration
• Works with cross-functional team members from Architecture, Product Management, and Operations to design, develop, test, and release features

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience developing systems or software for large business environments, as well as startups
• 5+ years of experience designing complex distributed systems, management products, or business applications
• 3+ years of experience in rapid prototyping and fast turnover of projects 
• Full-stack development experience with AI technologies and tools; applying it to user experiences or back-end solutions.
• Experience with AI technologies like SageMaker, Vertex, LangChain, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, DialogFlow, Python
• Experience with at least one of the following:
• Front-end technologies like React, Angular, SwiftUI (iOS), Kotlin (Android)
• Back-end technologies like Java, Typescript, Spring, Express (NodeJS)
• Prior working experience in a cloud computing environment like AWS or GCP
• Background in Fintech ‌or Security domains
• Ability to move quickly between topics, projects, and technologies, and learn fast
• Team player possessing strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Strong mentoring skills. Able to influence and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical people
• Prefers working in a team and collaborates with other cross-functional partners
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, complex technical environment
• Excellent communication skills. Communicates clearly, succinctly, and persuasively to all levels of employees, customers, and management (including executives)
• Self-starter attitude and the ability to make decisions independently
• Experience driving for results across cross-functional teams while maintaining effective working relationships
• Demonstrated ability to work with global teams across time zones, with a focus on working in English with the US
• BSc or MSc in Computer Science or related area, or equivalent experience