Distinguished Engineer, Intuit Intelligence, ML & AI

Intuit

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Work type
On-site
Location
Mountain View, CA
Salary
$316,000–$427,000 / yr
Posted
12 days ago
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About Intuit

Intuit is a financial software company known for products like TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, and Credit Karma, helping consumers and small businesses manage their finances and taxes. Industry: Financial Software & Technology

Intuit currently has 255 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Distinguished Engineer, Intuit Intelligence, ML & AI

The Distinguished Engineer - Intuit Intelligence, ML & AI will shape the technical and scientific direction of Intuit Intelligence by connecting research, model development, and agent engineering to production delivery. This role involves architecting agents that reason over context, retrieve information, and coordinate workflows while establishing reusable foundations for orchestration, memory management, and capability integration. You will perform technical contributions including experiments, prototypes, and production problem-solving. Key responsibilities include guiding model selection, training, and inference decisions based on quality, latency, and cost tradeoffs. You must build evaluation systems for robustness and safety while addressing challenges in grounding, uncertainty, and privacy. Required expertise includes statistical learning, deep learning, foundation models, and retrieval. You will translate scientific advances into scalable products and reusable technical capabilities.

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What you'll do

  • Define the long-term AI and ML strategy by connecting scientific advances to customer needs and production constraints.
  • Architect and build agents that reason over context, retrieve information, use tools, and coordinate workflows.
  • Establish reusable approaches for agent orchestration, context management, and failure recovery.
  • Guide model selection, adaptation, training, and inference decisions based on quality, latency, and cost tradeoffs.
  • Build evaluation systems to measure model quality, task completion, robustness, safety, and customer value.
  • Establish production practices for monitoring, experimentation, and model and agent lifecycle management.
  • Address technical challenges in grounding, uncertainty, generalization, permissions, privacy, and reliable execution.
  • Develop firsthand judgment by advancing promising ideas from experiments into validated product capabilities.

What we're looking for

  • Deep expertise in AI science and ML, including statistical learning, deep learning, experimental design, and rigorous evaluation.
  • Demonstrated experience building and operating production AI systems and agents that perform consequential workflows.
  • Strong understanding of foundation models, retrieval, tool use, agent orchestration, and techniques for adapting models to domain needs.
  • A record of translating research into scalable products and reusable technical capabilities.
  • Strong software and systems engineering judgment with the ability to influence technical direction across organizations.
  • Ability to explain scientific uncertainty and technical tradeoffs clearly to executive and technical audiences.
  • Ability to distinguish improvements in model behavior from improvements in system reliability and customer outcomes.

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