Senior AI Scientist - Fintech Risk AI

Intuit, Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit in Mountain View seeks a Senior AI Scientist for the Fintech Risk AI/ML 'Smart Money Services' (SMS) team to detect and prevent fraud and financial risk for Money Movement events. You will lead data-driven research, build predictive models, and communicate insights to stakeholders.

Ideal candidates have an advanced degree and 6+ years in financial risk modeling, with Python/R/Scala proficiency and experience in Spark, ETL, and cloud platforms. Salary range shown reflects local market.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in developing predictive models and statistical analysis in financial services or risk management.
• Strong proficiency in Python, R, or Scala, with data manipulation and visualization experience.
• Expertise in GLM, logistic regression, decision trees, time-series forecasting, and ML algorithms.
• Experience in Generative AI techniques, including autoencoders, GANs, VAEs.
• Practical ETL, data warehousing, and cloud computing experience.
• Excellent communication to present complex data to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a customer-centric approach.
• Expertise in supervised and unsupervised ML techniques.
• Experience with graph data and insight extraction.
• Expertise with Spark for data manipulation and ML feature creation.

Responsibilities

• Provides guidance to business leaders on how to harness data for critical needs and goals.
• Leads the full cycle of big data exploration from hypothesis to action planning.
• Collaborates with data engineers, database managers, and analysts to design research strategies.
• Applies methods to explore data scales with predictive modeling and testing on diverse sources.
• Provides entrepreneurial guidance to interpret findings and exploit insights for business.

Skills

Python

R

Scala

Statistical modeling

Machine learning

Time-series forecasting

Generative AI

Data visualization

Communication with stakeholders

Education

Advanced degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Spark

NoSQL databases

Cloud platforms

Job description

Come join the Fintech Risk AI/ML 'Smart Money Services' (SMS) as a 'Senior AI Scientist'. The SMS team is responsible for detecting and preventing fraud and financial risk for all Money Movement events at Intuit.

Responsibilities

• Provides guidance and support leadership to Business leaders and stakeholders on how best to harness available data in support of critical business needs and goals.

• Leads the full cycle of iterative big data exploration, including hypothesis formulation, algorithm development, data cleansing, testing, insight generation/visualization, and action planning.

• Uses considerable expertise and independent judgment in collaborating with peers, data engineers, database managers, and business analysts in designing and implementing the research strategy needed to methodically and iteratively structure, extract, cleanse, sample, test, validate, and communicate data-driven insights from complex sources and significant volumes of data for complex and unique business problems.

• Applies proven methods and hacking skills in working with divergent data types, data scales, and big data (petabytes), to explore and extrapolate data-driven insights using advanced, predictive statistical modeling and testing applied to data acquired and cleansed from a range of sources (relational and non-relational NoSQL databases)

• Provides to business stakeholders the entrepreneurial guidance essential for appropriately interpreting and building on findings, and fully exploiting the insights revealed through the research.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field.

• 6+ years of experience in developing predictive models and statistical analysis in a financial services or risk management context.

• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, or Scala, and experience with data manipulation and visualization tools.

• Expertise in statistical modelling techniques such as GLM, logistic regression, decision trees, time-series forecasting, and machine learning algorithms.

• Experience in Generative AI techniques, including autoencoders, GANs, VAEs.

• Practical experience with ETL processes, data warehousing, and cloud-based computing platforms.

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present complex data and insights to non-technical business stakeholders.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a customer-centric approach.

• Expertise and experience Supervised and Unsupervised ML techniques.

• Experience with graph data and insight extraction.

• Expertise with Spark for data manipulation and ML feature creation

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

Mountain View $180,000 - $243,500