Intuit
Summer 2027: PhD AI Research Intern
Mountain View, California · Internship · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Education
- Current PhD enrollment in a specified or related field; graduation expected after the internship ends.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for the duration of the internship.
About the job
Conduct AI research and develop, prototype, and evaluate methods that advance Intuit’s AI capabilities and improve customer experience across its fintech products.
What you'll do
- Design and run experiments; develop and evaluate models, algorithms, or methods against baselines.
- Review AI research, collaborate with research and engineering teams, and connect findings to product impact.
- Document and present research, and contribute to publication-quality write-ups where applicable.
What they ask for
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field, with graduation after the internship ends.
- Legally authorized to work full-time in the United States for the internship duration; able to work hybrid at a team-determined Intuit office.
- Experience in an AI area such as NLP, large language modeling, generative AI, uncertainty quantification, or reinforcement learning.
- Experience developing and debugging in Python with TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar frameworks; experience communicating scientific work in English through paper submissions and conference presentations.
Nice to have
- Established publication record, ideally first-author papers at top-tier AI conferences.
Pay
$64.20 - $86.68/hr. (base salary); Mountain View $50.5 - $89.5 (base salary; unit not stated)
Tools
Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch
AI focus
Research and apply robust and safe AI, neuro-symbolic AI, reinforcement learning, agents and multi-agent systems, language-model post-training and inference-time scaling, and decision theory.
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