Senior Staff AI Scientist

Intuit Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 226,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash bonus

Equity rewards

Benefits

Job summary

Intuit Inc. in Mountain View, CA seeks a Senior Staff AI Scientist to build probabilistic forecasting models powering cash flow prediction and financial forecasting for millions of small businesses.

You will lead end-to-end forecasting initiatives, mentor teams, and collaborate with product, software, and design partners to deliver production-ready AI solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in applied ML/AI with production-scale systems.
• BS, MS or PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Operations Research, or equivalent.
• Experience building time-series forecasting models for multi-horizon probabilistic forecasting (e.g., transformer-based forecasters such as TFT, DeepAR, or N-BEATS/N-HiTS).
• Strong probabilistic forecasting fundamentals: quantile/distributional losses, calibration, multi-task objectives.
• Experience building large-scale learned representations, including embeddings at scale.
• Strong fundamentals in modern deep learning frameworks and production training/inference pipelines.
• Experience optimizing models for production latency and throughput.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical partners.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and train large-scale forecasting models end-to-end in code.
• Mentor other scientists and engineers, promoting innovation and craft excellence.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define success criteria and align metrics with business goals.
• Lead the technical work of a scrum team, ensuring high-quality code and architecture.
• Perform hands-on data analysis and modeling on large datasets, including data sourcing and featurization.
• Apply data mining, NLP, and ML methods to real-world problems and datasets.
• Communicate AI tradeoffs and strategy to leaders to influence roadmaps with data.

Skills

Applied ML/AI

Time-series forecasting

Probabilistic forecasting

Model deployment

Leadership

Communication

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Statistics/Math/CS/Economics/OR

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

ETL Pipelines

Job description

We're scaling the AI science behind QuickBooks' financial intelligence platform, and we're looking for a Senior Staff AI Scientist to build the probabilistic forecasting models that power cash flow prediction and financial forecasting for millions of small businesses.

Being part of QuickBooks Fintech means you'll sit at the center of decisions that directly shape small business financial health. You'll work closely with data pipeline and infrastructure teams to take models from concept to trained, calibrated, production-ready systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and train large-scale forecasting models end-to-end in code.
• Practices leadership and communication skills to influence teams and to evangelize AI science across the organization
• Collaborates with stakeholders to define success criteria and align model metrics with business goals. Works side-by-side with product managers, software engineers, and designers in designing experiments and minimum viable products
• Leads technical work of a scrum team: initiating and designing model solutions, driving end-to-end architecture designs of the team’s work, and holding the team accountable for high quality code, git, design, costs and implementation standards
• Performs hands-on data analysis and modeling with large data sets, including discovering data sources, getting data access, cleaning up data, and making them "model-ready". You need to be willing and able to do your own ETL and design/build featurization.
• Applies data mining, NLP, and machine learning (such as supervised/unsupervised, Causal-ML, Online Learning, Bayesian Learning, Reinforcement Learning, or Deep Learning) to real-world problems and datasets
• Mentor other scientists and engineers, contributing to a high-performance, inclusive AI science community that promotes innovation and craft excellence.
• Communicate AI tradeoffs and strategy clearly to technical and non-technical leaders. Influence roadmaps with data, insights, and a deep understanding of customer needs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in applied ML/AI, with a strong track record of delivering scalable, production-grade AI systems.
• BS, MS or PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Operations Research, or equivalent
• Deep hands-on experience building and training time-series or sequence models for multi-horizon probabilistic forecasting (e.g., transformer-based forecasters such as TFT, DeepAR, or N-BEATS/N-HiTS, or comparable architectures).
• Strong applied grounding in probabilistic forecasting: quantile or distributional loss functions, calibration evaluation, and multi-task objectives across several targets.
• Experience building large-scale learned representations (e.g., entity embeddings at millions-of-entities scale), including cold-start strategies.
• Strong fundamentals in a modern deep learning framework, with experience building production training and inference pipelines.
• Experience optimizing models for production latency and throughput constraints, from real-time inference to large-batch scoring.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical partners, including risk and compliance stakeholders.

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 $226,000 - $306,000