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Senior Data Scientist

Category Data Location San Diego, California Job ID 2024-57430
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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 looking for an innovative and hands-on Senior Data Scientist to join the Intuit AI team. 

This team embeds artificial intelligence and machine learning into our product portfolio and business to create smarter products, improve anti-fraud and security and enhance customer care. Come join our collaborative and creative group of data scientists and machine learning engineers and build models that directly affect hundreds of thousands of our customers. In this role you will be building and deploying machine learning models using both analytical algorithms and deep learning approaches. 

Responsibilities

  • Perform hands-on data analysis and modeling with huge data sets 
  • Apply data mining, NLP, and machine learning (both supervised and unsupervised) to improve relevance and personalization algorithms 
  • Work side-by-side with product managers, software engineers, and designers in designing experiments and minimum viable products 
  • Discover data sources, get access to them, import them, clean them up, and make them “model-ready”. You need to be willing and able to do your own ETL 
  • Create and refine features from the underlying data. You’ll enjoy developing just enough subject matter expertise to have an intuition about what features might make your model perform better, and then you’ll lather, rinse and repeat 
  • Run regular A/B tests, gather data, perform statistical analysis, draw conclusions on the impact of your optimizations and communicate results to peers and leaders 
  • Explore new design or technology shifts in order to determine how they might connect with the customer benefits we wish to deliver 

Qualifications

  • BS, MS, or PhD in an appropriate technology field (Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Math, Operations Research, etc.) 
  • 1+ years of industry experience with data science 
  • 1+ years of experience in modern advanced analytical tools and programming languages such as R or Python with scikit-learn 
  • Efficient in SQL, Hive, or SparkSQL, etc. 
  • Comfortable in Linux environment 
  • 1+ years of experience in data mining algorithms and statistical modeling techniques such as clustering, classification, regression, decision trees, neural nets, support vector machines, anomaly detection, recommender systems, sequential pattern discovery, and text mining 
  • Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences 
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Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is Southern California $145,500 - 196,500. 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 pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

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