Intuit · 1 day ago
Principal Data Scientist – Fintech Analytics
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$240K/yr - $324K/yr
10+ years expIntuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. They are seeking a Principal Data Scientist to lead data science and decision intelligence for their money movement platforms, transforming complex transactional data into predictive insights to improve reliability and customer trust.
AccountingFinancial ServicesFinTechPaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Lead principal-level data science initiatives across Intuit’s Fintech money movement platforms, spanning payments, balance, banking, lending, and global rails
Build and evolve predictive and diagnostic models to understand and improve transaction success, authorization rates, latency, fraud losses, and funds availability
Own business and platform observability from a data science lens—connecting system behavior to customer impact, revenue outcomes, and risk exposure
Partner deeply with Product, Engineering, Risk, Finance, and Operations leaders to shape data-informed strategy and trade-offs
Drive root-cause analysis for complex, ambiguous issues such as payment declines, anomaly detection, fraud spikes, reconciliation gaps, and cross-rail performance differences
Develop frameworks to quantify business impact during incidents and systemic changes, enabling faster and better executive decision-making
Influence roadmap and investment decisions by translating model outputs into clear narratives, scenarios, and recommendations
Establish best practices for model governance, metric definitions, experimentation, and analytical rigor across Fintech
Mentor and elevate other data scientists and analysts through technical leadership, reviews, and knowledge sharing
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in data science, applied machine learning, or quantitative analytics, with ownership of mission-critical systems
Strong experience working with large-scale transactional or event-driven data, ideally in fintech, payments, banking, or other regulated financial domains
Deep understanding of money movement concepts such as payment rails, authorization flows, settlement, reconciliation, fraud, chargebacks, and funds availability
Proven track record of building models that drive real business outcomes, not just academic or offline results
Advanced proficiency in SQL and strong experience with Python (or equivalent) for data science and modeling
Experience with anomaly detection, forecasting, classification, causal analysis, or optimization in production environments
Exceptional ability to translate complex analyses into clear, executive-level insights
Comfortable operating in ambiguity, owning problems end-to-end from formulation to impact
Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or equivalent); advanced degree preferred but not required
Benefits
Cash bonus
Equity rewards
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Company
Intuit
Intuit provides financial software solutions to empower individuals and businesses.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$14.32BKey Investors
JP Morgan ChaseKleiner Perkins,Sierra Ventures,Technology Venture Investors
2026-01-30Post Ipo Debt· $5.8B
2025-01-31Post Ipo Debt· $4.5B
2023-09-12Post Ipo Debt· $4B
Leadership Team
Sasan Goodarzi
Chief Executive Officer
Marianna Tessel
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
2026-02-07
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