Sr Staff Engineer, Security Research

Job Overview

Come join the Applied Security Research team as a Research Engineer. You will be joining a high-profile team that’s addressing some of Intuit’s most pressing security challenges, including AI and GenAI security, cryptography and data security. This is an opportunity to create impact at a company level by adopting and enhancing state-of-the-art security technologies.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Explore and develop new security technologies in the areas of data and AI security
• Be a steward of Intuit’s and Intuit customers’ security by working with diverse teams to protect their data
• Drive significant technology initiatives, end to end and across multiple layers of architecture and process changes
• Drive design and implementation of durable software solutions that will solve critical customer problems
• Capture requirements and use cases
• Partner with other groups both inside and outside of Intuit for cross-functional design, solution integration and on-boarding of mobile, SaaS, PaaS, web, or desktop offerings
• Passionate for continuous learning, experimenting, and applying cutting-edge technology and software paradigms
• Pursue and resolve complex or unchartered technical problems and share key learnings
• Provide technical leadership and be a role model to software engineers pursuing technical career path in engineering
• Provide and inspire innovations that fuel the growth of Intuit as a whole
• Apply your experience and innovation to generate creative ideas for emerging business needs
• Coach and mentor other engineers in process and methodologies
• Provide perspective on leading industry trends, recommendations on new and emerging technologies, technology prototypes, patent proposals, and engineering process improvements 

Qualifications

Technical Qualifications

• 8+ years of combined experience developing systems and software, or security-related research experience
• Strong familiarity with security technology, including authentication, authorization, and policies, and cryptography
• Familiarity with classic AI and Generative AI models, their implementation, use cases, and technological ecosystem
• Solid design and coding skills
• The ability to analyze complex systems from a security perspective
• Able to operate at highly varying levels of abstraction, from business strategy to product strategy to high-level technical design to detailed technical design to implementation
• The ability to drive process changes, including authoring process documents and shepherding long team adoption programs
• Synthesize achievable solutions from diverse inputs, alternative sources (build vs. buy vs. partner) and complex data
• Prior working experience in cloud computing domain highly desired
• BSc/MSc in Computer Science or related area, or equivalent experience

Leadership Qualifications

• 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
• Demonstrated ability to work with global teams across time zones
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, complex technical environment.
• High adaptability and flexibility
• Experience driving for results across cross-functional teams while maintaining effective working relationships
• 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