Intuit
Principal AI Scientist - AI Foundation
$274K–$370K
Mountain View, California · Principal · Full-time · Posted Feb 21, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of industry experience with data science; 8+ years of hands-on expertise in ML paradigms.
- Education
- BS, MS or PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Operations Research, or equivalent experience
About the job
Leads development of AI standards, evaluation methods, tools, and scalable machine-learning capabilities that accelerate AI development across Intuit.
What you'll do
- Lead a scrum team’s technical work, including model solutions, end-to-end architecture, and implementation standards.
- Analyze and prepare large datasets, build features, and apply data mining, NLP, and machine learning to real-world problems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to define model success criteria, deliver data-science solutions, and explore new ML technologies.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of industry experience with data science.
- 8+ years of hands-on expertise in machine-learning paradigms.
- Proficiency in multiple optimization paradigms, NLP techniques, Explainable AI, and ML frameworks.
- Expertise with advanced analytical tools and programming languages such as Python, Scala, Java and/or R; experience building end-to-end reusable pipelines.
Pay
USD 273,500 - USD 369,500 base salary
Tools
Python, Scala, Java, R, NLP, Causal-ML, Online Learning, Bayesian Learning
AI focus
Builds and scales AI capabilities, standards, evaluation methodologies, and tools; applies machine learning and NLP to customer problems.
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