Principal AI Platform Engineer for Enterprise Workflows

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

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Cash bonus

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Benefits

Job summary

Intuit, Inc. seeks a Principal Software Engineer to shape how AI transforms everyday work. Lead the technical strategy and engineering of shared capabilities enabling employees to find trusted information and complete complex workflows via AI agents.

As a senior contributor, translate ambiguous problems into reliable production systems across the shared platform and employee workflows, guiding architecture while staying hands-on with critical implementations.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering with ownership of large enterprise systems.
• Proven technical leadership across multiple teams and architectures.
• Hands-on experience deploying AI capabilities to production, including language-model APIs and agent 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.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and mentor other engineers.
• A CS degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with employee productivity platforms and regulated data environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define the multiyear architecture and roadmap for AI-powered work.
• Lead engineering for permission-aware context, agent orchestration, and integrations.
• Own difficult engineering problems through production, including distributed execution and data freshness.
• Design dependable human–AI collaboration with traceability and recoverability.
• Set production quality standards, release criteria, monitoring, and incident practices.
• Deliver measurable improvements in workflow completion time, quality, and employee effort.
• Mentor Staff and Senior Staff engineers and align teams on standards and decisions.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

AI systems

Python

Java

TypeScript

Cloud services

Distributed systems

Architectural direction

Agent orchestration

Education

CS degree or equivalent experience

Tools

APIs for AI agents

Job description

Intuit, Inc. seeks a Principal Software Engineer to shape how AI transforms everyday work. Lead the technical strategy and engineering of shared capabilities enabling employees to find trusted information and complete complex workflows via AI agents.

As a senior contributor, translate ambiguous problems into reliable production systems across the shared platform and employee workflows, guiding architecture while staying hands-on with critical implementations.