Senior AI Scientist - Fintech Risk AI

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

Job summary

Intuit is seeking a Senior AI Scientist for its Fintech Risk AI/ML SMS team in Mountain View to detect and prevent fraud and financial risk across Money Movement events. You will lead end-to-end data science initiatives, from hypothesis through deployment, using state-of-the-art statistical models and ML techniques.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineers and business stakeholders, applying generative AI methods and large-scale data to deliver actionable insights and measurable risk

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience developing predictive models and statistical analysis in financial services or risk management.
• Proficiency in Python, R, or Scala and data manipulation/visualization tools.
• Expertise in GLM, logistic regression, decision trees, time-series forecasting and ML algorithms.
• Experience with Generative AI techniques (autoencoders, GANs, VAEs).
• ETL processes, data warehousing, and cloud-based computing platforms.
• Excellent communication skills for presenting data to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and customer-centric problem-solving.
• Experience with 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 and support leadership to business leaders on data harnessing for critical needs.
• Leads full cycle of iterative big data exploration: hypothesis, modeling, cleansing, testing, insights, action planning.
• Collaborates with data engineers, database managers, and analysts to design research strategy for structuring and validating data-driven insights.
• Applies predictive statistical modeling on diverse data sources to extract insights for business problems.
• Translates findings into actionable guidance for stakeholders.

Skills

Python

R

Scala

Statistical modeling

ML techniques

Generative AI

Data visualization

Communication

Analytical thinking

Spark

Education

Advanced degree in Statistics/Applied Math/CS

Tools

Spark

Job description

Overview

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.

The Expected Base Pay Range For This Position Is

Mountain View $180,000 - $243,500