Principal AI Scientist
Intuit
Company Overview
Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.
Job Overview
Come join our collaborative and creative group of data 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. We are waiting for you to join us and do the best work of your life.
Responsibilities
Practices excellent leadership and communication skills to infl uence and lead teams and to evangelize data science across the organization
- Leads team’s work in one or more of: ML, NLP, Statistics, or Optimization, performs hand-on work in these domains.
- Weighs ROI considerations of general and tailored capabilities for projects in the team
- Creates new capabilities that solve critical business problems
- Pushes the boundaries of ML by developing foundational methods and novel applications from state-of-the-art ML technologies and industry trends
- Infl uences business leaders to shape mission critical projects
- Creates multi-year vision that connects product strategy with technology strategy
- Drives architecture decisions, infl uences and contributes to ML platform architecture and strategy
- Leads team and partners to the successful delivery and integration of ML solutions
- Conducts design reviews, holds teams to technical and operational rigor.
- Acts as an advisor in overseeing and mentoring the work of colleagues towards the building of a vibrant practice community.
Qualifications
PhD/MS in Engineering Mathematics, Statistics, Theoretical/Computational Physics, or related fi eld
- Solid knowledge of statistical techniques
- 3+ years as either a lead in a data science role or in a management position in data science
- Strong communication skills and proven experience as an infl uencer at the executive level
- Hands-on programming experience in one or more of: ML, NLP, Statistics, or Optimization
- 6+ years’ experience manipulating large datasets and using databases (e.g. R, SQL, S-Plus, etc.)
- 6+ years’ experience with a general-purpose programming language (e.g. Python, Scala, etc.) Strongly Preferred:
- PhD in Engineering Mathematics, Statistics, Theoretical/Computational Physics, or related fi eld
- Expert knowledge and hands-on experience in one or more of: ML, NLP, Statistics, or Optimization
- Expert knowledge and hands-on experience with ML pipelines, processes, and design patterns
- Proven track record of infl uencing business leaders to shape mission critical projects
- Proven track record of leading team to successful delivery of ML solutions
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills in order to effectively contribute to technical teams and make presentations to a variety of technical and business personnel.