Senior AI Scientist

Company Overview

Job Overview

Intuit is seeking a Sr AI Scientist to join our AI Science team in Intuit India for the Virtual Expert Platform (VEP) Organization.

We’re investing in a culture of “builders” by fostering an environment where innovation, creativity, and bold thinking are encouraged. I believe that the “builder” mindset is necessary for us to accelerate our move toward AI-native experiences. This requires more builders who can rapidly apply AI and emerging technologies to solve our customers’ problems.

Join the Virtual Expert Platform team, the driving force behind Intuit's expert service, sales, and workforce management (and other Operations Research topics), generating billions in revenue. We are seeking a Principal AI Scientist to help reimagine and shape VEP's future in the era of Agentic AI.

Responsibilities

• 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 ML 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.
• Runs A/B tests to draw conclusions on the impact of your team’s work and communicates results to peers and leaders
• Communicates with partners to ensure successful delivery and integration of DS solutions.
• Proactively researches, explores, and enables new AI/ML technologies. Keeps up with the new developments in academia and industry and considers possible extensions to solve Intuit customer problems.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in an appropriate technology field (Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Math, Operations Research, etc.).
• 2+ years of experience with data science for PhD and 5+ years for Masters.
• 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
• 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