Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, AI-Powered Work

Intuit

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On-site
Location
Mountain View, CASan Diego, CA
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$202,500–$274,000 / yr
Posted
4 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 · Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, AI-Powered Work

The Staff Forward Deployed Engineer joins the AI-Powered Work team to help employees redesign workflows using artificial intelligence. This role involves embedding with business partners to move from ambiguous needs to production-ready prototypes and sustained adoption. You will own complex workflows from discovery and technical scoping through implementation, building user experiences, services, agents, and data access layers. Key responsibilities include testing assumptions, connecting enterprise systems through APIs and Model Context Protocol, and grounding solutions in business data with permissions and provenance. You must demonstrate deep programming skills in Python, Java, or TypeScript, along with experience in cloud services, retrieval, and tool execution. The role solves the problem of integrating AI into enterprise functions by balancing quality, reliability, latency, and cost while creating reusable components and mentoring other engineers.

What does a Forward Deployed Engineer earn?

Median $219575 from 46 postings across 19 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Partner with business owners to identify high-value problems and define measurable success criteria.
  • Build and demonstrate early prototypes to test risky assumptions and refine requirements.
  • Write production software across user experiences, services, agents, and data access layers.
  • Integrate enterprise systems through approved APIs and implement permissions and data provenance.
  • Create task-level evaluations with domain experts and establish regression tests and monitoring.
  • Manage the rollout, training, and documentation to ensure sustained user adoption.
  • Lead solution design and technical decisions while mentoring other engineers on code and design.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience independently delivering complex production software from unclear problems through launch and iteration.
  • Deep hands-on programming and system-design skills in Python, Java, TypeScript, or comparable languages.
  • Experience building cloud services, integrating APIs and data systems, and debugging reliability and performance problems across system boundaries.
  • Practical experience building AI-enabled applications or agents, including retrieval, tool execution, evaluations, and model output validation.
  • Staff-level technical leadership demonstrated through ownership of complex capabilities, cross-team influence, design/code reviews, and mentoring.
  • Strong product judgment to uncover needs with nontechnical partners, define requirements, prioritize scope, and make delivery tradeoffs.
  • Experience with enterprise workflows, full-stack product development, SaaS integrations, or secure agent deployment (preferred).

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