Lead AI-Powered Work Platform Architect

Intuit, Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 354,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit, Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape how AI transforms everyday work.

You will lead the technical strategy for shared capabilities that help employees find trusted information, make informed decisions, and complete complex workflows through AI agents. You will stay hands-on while guiding architecture across teams, delivering production-grade solutions, and driving improvements in workflow efficiency and reliability.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of large enterprise systems and distributed architectures.
• Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams with a track record of turning architectural direction into shipped software.
• Hands-on experience deploying AI capabilities into production, including language-model APIs, retrieval, and orchestration.
• Strong programming and system-design skills in Python, Java, TypeScript, or comparable languages.
• Experience building cloud services and integrating enterprise applications, identity systems, and data platforms.
• Evaluation of AI behavior, diagnosing failures, and improving quality, security, performance, and cost.

Responsibilities

• Define the multiyear architecture and roadmap for AI-powered work.
• Build reusable capabilities for permission-aware context, agent orchestration, and integrations.
• Own difficult engineering problems in production, guiding design reviews and resolving issues.
• Design dependable human–AI collaboration with clear agent action rules and traceability.
• Set production quality standards, release criteria, monitoring, and incident practices.
• Deliver measurable improvements in workflows by analyzing current processes and opportunities.
• Mentor and align engineers on technical standards and architecture decisions.

Skills

Leadership

AI deployment

Distributed systems

Cloud services

Code quality

Security

Performance

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

Python

Java

TypeScript

Job description

Intuit, Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape how AI transforms everyday work.

You will lead the technical strategy for shared capabilities that help employees find trusted information, make informed decisions, and complete complex workflows through AI agents. You will stay hands-on while guiding architecture across teams, delivering production-grade solutions, and driving improvements in workflow efficiency and reliability.