Intuit
Staff Software Engineer
$188K–$255K
San Diego, California · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the architecture and delivery of SCORE’s AI-powered tax-savings discovery capabilities, ensuring recommendations are accurate, explainable, reliable, and useful to customers.
What you'll do
- Set technical strategy and lead cross-team initiatives from design through production launch and iteration.
- Build and improve production code and LLM-powered workflows; establish practices for evaluation, quality, latency, cost, and safety.
- Partner across product, design, tax, data science, and platform teams; mentor engineers and address reliability and scalability risks.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of leading large-scale, high-impact systems.
- Deep expertise building and operating production services; strong proficiency in one or more of Java, Scala, Python, or similar.
- Experience building AI or ML-powered product features and addressing production AI concerns such as evaluation, latency, cost, monitoring, and guardrails.
- Strong system design and technical leadership, including cross-functional alignment and mentoring; ability to work in a high-accuracy domain.
Nice to have
- Experience with tax, finance, or other regulated domains.
- Experience with LLMs, agentic systems, or retrieval.
Pay
USD 188,500 - 255,000 base salary (San Diego)
Tools
Java, Scala, Python, LLMs
AI focus
Leads production AI work for tax-savings discovery, including LLM-backed recommendations, agentic workflows, orchestration, evaluation, and accuracy and safety guardrails.
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