Intuit
Principal Engineer, App Foundations
$248K–$335K
San Diego, California · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years developing systems or software for large business environments; 5+ years designing complex distributed systems, management products, or business applications; AI-native application team experience for 1+ years is preferred.
- Education
- BS or MS in Computer Science or related area, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads end-to-end design and implementation of scalable application infrastructure and AI-native experiences across Intuit’s TurboTax and Credit Karma products.
What you'll do
- Drives major cross-company technology initiatives and delivers durable, secure, high-performing software solutions.
- Partners with cross-functional teams to develop and integrate customer-focused features.
- Guides AI application to customer problems and contributes to engineering standards and best practices.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of experience developing systems or software for large business environments.
- 5+ years of experience designing complex distributed systems, management products, or business applications.
- Full-stack development experience with AI technologies and tools, applied to user experiences or backend solutions; experience with at least one listed front-end and one listed back-end technology.
- BS or MS in Computer Science or related area, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Prior working experience in a cloud computing environment like AWS or GCP is highly desired.
- Prior experience working in teams that have built AI-native applications for 1+ years.
Pay
San Diego $247,500 - $335,000 (base salary)
Tools
SageMaker, Vertex, LangChain, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, DialogFlow, Python, React
AI focus
Applies AI to customer experiences and backend solutions, evaluates solution accuracy, and guides use of AI models and tools in AI-native applications.
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