Senior AI Scientist

Intuit; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash bonus

Equity rewards

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

A leading software company in Oakland is seeking a Senior AI Scientist to join their innovative AI team. The role involves hands-on machine learning model development and data analysis, requiring proficiency in programming languages like Python and tools such as scikit-learn. Ideal candidates should have at least 1 year of experience in AI science and excellent communication skills. The position offers competitive compensation, including cash bonuses and equity rewards, in a collaborative and creative environment.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of industry experience with AI science.
• 1+ years of experience in advanced analytical tools and programming.
• Solid communication skills for explaining complex issues.

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on data analysis and modeling with large data sets.
• Apply data mining and machine learning to improve algorithms.
• Design experiments alongside product managers and engineers.

Skills

Data mining

Machine learning

NLP

SQL

Python

Data analysis

Education

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Math or related field

Tools

scikit-learn

Hive

SparkSQL

Job description

Overview

Intuit is looking for an innovative and hands-on Senior AI Scientist to join the Intuit AI team. This team embeds artificial intelligence and machine learning into our product portfolio and business to create smarter products, improve anti-fraud and security and enhance customer care. Come join our collaborative and creative group of AI scientists and machine learning engineers and build models that directly affect hundreds of thousands of our customers. In this role you will be building and deploying machine learning models using both analytical algorithms and deep learning approaches.

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on data analysis and modeling with large data sets
• Apply data mining, NLP, and machine learning (both supervised and unsupervised) to improve relevance and personalization algorithms
• Work side-by-side with product managers, software engineers, and designers in designing experiments and minimum viable products
• Discover data sources, get access to them, import them, clean them up, and make them “model-ready”. You need to be willing and able to do your own ETL
• Create and refine features from the underlying data. You’ll enjoy developing just enough subject matter expertise to have an intuition about what features might make your model perform better, and then you’ll lather, rinse and repeat
• Run regular A/B tests, gather data, perform statistical analysis, draw conclusions on the impact of your optimizations and communicate results to peers and leaders
• Explore new design or technology shifts in order to determine how they might connect with the customer benefits we wish to deliver

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in an appropriate technology field (Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Math, Operations Research, etc.)
• 1+ years of industry experience with AI science
• 1+ years of experience in modern advanced analytical tools and programming languages such as R or Python with scikit-learn
• Efficient in SQL, Hive, or SparkSQL, etc.
• Comfortable in Linux environment
• 1+ years of experience in data mining algorithms and statistical modeling techniques such as clustering, classification, regression, decision trees, neural nets, support vector machines, anomaly detection, recommender systems, sequential pattern discovery, and text mining
• Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs. The base pay range depends on location and experience.