Intuit · 4 days ago
Staff AI Research Scientist
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$206K/yr - $278K/yr
5+ years expIntuit is hiring a Staff AI Research Scientist to join the Intuit Foresight team. This role involves conducting cutting-edge research in AI to enhance decision-making capabilities, mentoring junior researchers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate scientific methods into practical applications for Intuit's product offerings.
AccountingFinancial ServicesFinTechPaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Conducting basic and applied research on probabilistic, causal, and simulation-based models, and on methods that enable LLMs to reason over structured business data
Engaging with the academic and broader research community through publications, presentations, and collaborations
Working towards long-term ambitious research goals that are in alignment with Intuit products, while identifying intermediate milestones
Working with a cross-functional team of designers, product managers, engineers, researchers, legal experts and more, to translate scientific AI methods into decision-support capabilities that power the customer experiences across various Intuit product offerings
Mentoring junior researchers, AI scientists, and interns through goal setting and technical directions that lead to positive outcomes
Qualification
Required
PhD in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Statistics/Applied Mathematics or a related field with focus on AI/ML/Data Science
5+ years of relevant work experience post PhD
Established track record of publication, ideally demonstrated through first author publications in top tier AI conferences ( e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, KDD, ACL, AAAI)
8+ years experience in conducting theoretical or applied research with demonstrated capability of defining and driving research projects
Past experience in disseminating new technical ideas to the larger scientific community through open sourcing, publications, and presentations
Experience with developing and debugging in Python with Tensorflow, Pytorch, or similar frameworks
Deep technical expertise in machine learning, with hands-on experience in probabilistic modeling, causal inference, time-series forecasting, reinforcement learning, agentic and multi-agent systems, neuro-symbolic AI, deep learning architectures, or model training
Excited about the future of Money, Payments, FinTech, and the transformation these technologies will drive
Strong interpersonal and communication skills in order to effectively communicate and/or collaborate with other team members as well as product technologists and other stakeholders
Excellent leadership and communication skills to influence teams and to evangelize research solutions across the company
Preferred
Past experience leading a research team and mentoring junior colleagues is a plus
Benefits
Cash bonus
Equity rewards
Benefits
Company
Intuit
Intuit provides financial software solutions to empower individuals and businesses.
10001+ employees
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