Principal Trust & Safety Engineer — AI-Driven Risk

Intuit Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 261,000 - 353,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit Inc. in New York seeks a Principal Engineer to lead the technology vision for Trust & Safety.

You will design AI and data-driven signals, risk scoring, and production decisioning while partnering across Product, Data Science, Security, Compliance, Risk and Operations to keep customers safe and enable innovation. Responsibilities include shaping architecture, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers to raise the technical bar in scalable, secure, and compliant

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing large-scale distributed backends.
• Expert in Java/JVM and Spring Boot.
• Experience with cloud-native services on AWS/GCP.
• Ability to mentor engineers and lead reviews.
• Strong communication with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead Trust & Safety architecture across multiple risk vectors.
• Design end-to-end technical solutions protecting access/identity.
• Integrate ML models into production decision flows for risk scoring.
• Define evaluation strategies and metrics for protection.
• Drive reliability, performance, observability, and SRE practices.
• Ensure security/privacy by design and regulatory alignment.

Skills

Java/Spring

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

ML integration

Security/Privacy

Observability

Mentoring

Leadership

Communication

Cross-team collaboration

Education

BS/MS in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka/Kinesis

AWS/GCP

Spring Boot

Job description

Intuit Inc. in New York seeks a Principal Engineer to lead the technology vision for Trust & Safety.

You will design AI and data-driven signals, risk scoring, and production decisioning while partnering across Product, Data Science, Security, Compliance, Risk and Operations to keep customers safe and enable innovation. Responsibilities include shaping architecture, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers to raise the technical bar in scalable, secure, and compliant