Intuit
Principal Software Engineer, AI-Powered Work
$262K–$354K
Mountain View, California +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California
San Diego, California - Experience
- 15+ years of software engineering experience.
- Education
- A degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the architecture and hands-on engineering of shared AI capabilities and employee workflows that help people find information, make decisions, and complete work with AI agents.
What you'll do
- Set technical strategy and roadmap; lead architecture decisions across teams.
- Build reusable AI platform capabilities and deliver reliable production systems, including evaluation, monitoring, and recovery.
- Partner with product and functional leaders to improve workflows, measure outcomes, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial ownership of large enterprise systems and complex distributed architectures.
- Technical leadership across multiple teams, with a record of turning architectural direction into shipped software.
- Production experience with AI capabilities, including language-model APIs, retrieval, context engineering, tool execution, and agent orchestration.
- Strong programming and system-design skills; experience with cloud services and enterprise application, identity, and data-platform integrations.
Nice to have
- Experience with employee productivity platforms, enterprise workflow automation, or developer tooling.
- Experience in regulated or sensitive data environments.
Pay
Mountain View: USD 261,500 - 353,500 base salary
Tools
Python, Java, TypeScript
AI focus
Builds production AI capabilities and agent-enabled workflows, including orchestration, retrieval, context engineering, tool execution, evaluation, and human approval and oversight.
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