Staff Ai Scientist jobs at Intuit in India, Bengaluru

In this role, you'll drive end-to-end design strategy across multiple workstreams, using your expertise in design systems, customer insights, and data fluency to craft intuitive, scalable product experiences. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, data science, and research to solve complex problems and ensure business impact. As a senior design leader, you'll also mentor others, help shape team goals, and contribute to product vision and planning.

• Lead design strategy for AI-powered inventory management experiences that scale across QuickBooks Online, helping small businesses thrive with enterprise-grade capabilities.
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, data science, and research to define goals, make informed decisions, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Solve complex, ambiguous problems using a platform and systems-thinking mindset, balancing user needs, technical feasibility, and business impact.
• Create and refine design frameworks, patterns, and scalable UI solutions in alignment with Intuit Design System (IDS) standards.
• Use customer and market insights, behavioral data, and testing to shape product direction and drive innovation.
• Communicate design decisions with clarity and influence—effectively aligning teams around a compelling product vision.
• Mentor and uplevel other designers, fostering growth in craft and cross-functional collaboration.
• Contribute to design operations by identifying opportunities to improve team workflows, tools, and systems.
• Support a culture of feedback, inclusion, and experimentation by leading critiques and championing continuous learning.

• 8+ years of product design experience with a portfolio showcasing high-impact, user-centered design across complex systems or platforms.
• Strong systems thinker with a demonstrated ability to drive consistency across multiple products or workflows.
• Deep experience integrating qualitative research, behavioral analytics, and market trends into product and design decisions.
• Effective communicator and influencer with a track record of aligning stakeholders and presenting to senior leadership.
• Proven leadership across cross-functional teams—capable of shaping vision, guiding execution, and mentoring other designers.
• Technical fluency—comfortable collaborating with engineers on feasibility, quality, and implementation of advanced features like machine learning.Growth mindset with a bias for action, continuous iteration, and a passion for leveling the playing field for small businesses.

• Drive significant technology initiatives end-to-end and across multiple layers of architecture.
• Architect and develop scalable applications or systems.
• Drive the design and implementation of durable software solutions to solve critical customer problems that are scalable, secure, easy to maintain, and interact with numerous other systems.
• Provide recommendations and best practices for application development, platform development, and developer tools.
• Actively stay abreast of industry best practices, share learnings, and experiment and apply cutting edge technologies.
• Provide/inspire innovations that fuel the growth of Intuit as a whole and generate creative ideas for emerging business needs.
• Work with global, cross-functional teams across time zones.
• Communicate clearly, succinctly, and persuasively to all levels of employees, customers, and management (including executives)
• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance software applications with AI technology
• Coach and mentor junior engineers on best practices of software engineering, leveraging AI to enhance applications, and building their technical expertise to ensure efficient and effective outcomes
• Launch AI integrations in production and evaluate their impact on software performance and user satisfaction, using appropriate metrics

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related area or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of total experience delivering enterprise-class applications.
• Solid foundation in writing scalable application code following best practices of accessibility, internationalization, and instrumentation.
• Experience with cross-browser, cross-platform, and design constraints on the web and mobile.
• Solid knowledge of algorithms and design patterns.
• Proficiency in mid-tier languages like Java.
• Experience with test automation: TDD, unit/integration/functional testing.
• Experience with Relational Database Design and Implementation.
• Interest in building CI/CD pipelines.
• Practical experience in developing applications using microservices, container technologies, container management systems such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.
• Strong experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics.
• Prior working experience in utility computing and/or cloud computing domain.
• Experience building and deploying applications and services into cloud environments.
• Proficient in building or integrating functional AI models using techniques such as LLM prompting, AutoML modeling, etc
• Skilled in evaluating and monitoring the performance of AI technology in production and making necessary adjustments to ensure optimal application performance
• Possesses an in-depth understanding of AI integration and can lead the integration process effectively, while coaching junior engineers on how to leverage AI
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, product managers, and software engineers

• Development of customer-facing applications from design through implementation.
• Contribute to full lifecycle quality and engineering activities, including peer reviews of estimates, designs and code.
• Partner effectively with all team members in the organization to deliver against commitments.
• Roughly 60-75% hands-on coding.
• Resolve defects/bugs during testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches.
• Work cross-functionally with various Intuit teams: product management, various product lines, or business units to drive forward results.
• Contribute to the design and architecture of the project.
• Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies.
• Commitment to team success and positive team dynamics.
• Passion for growing and applying technical skills in service to customers.

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related area or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of professional working experience delivering production-ready code.
• Experience in developing systems/software for large business environments (React, Java/J2EE, Python).
• Experience in designing complex distributed systems, management products or business applications.
• Prior experience working in teams that have built AI native applications for 1+ years.
• Full-stack development experience with AI technologies and tools; applying it to user experiences or backend solutions.
• Advocate for the highest standards for engineering design, implementation, and testing.
• Practical experience in developing applications using microservices, container technologies, container management systems such as Kubernetes.
• Strong experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics.
• Prior working experience in utility computing and/or cloud computing domain highly desired
• Experience building and deploying applications and services into cloud environments (AWS highly desired).

• Designs, develops, tests, deploys, maintains, and improves software solutions.
• Solves complex problems by leveraging a variety of technologies.
• Driven to achieve results and committed to producing high-quality code.
• Leads the process of gathering functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and managing project and test plans.
• Demonstrates a strong interest and aptitude for learning new coding languages as necessary.
• Functions as a technical leader and domain expert, beginning to shape technology and product strategy. Makes informed decisions at a local level, considering both immediate and long-term implications, as well as business impact.
• Utilizes data to inform product and technical decisions within their area of responsibility.
• Enhances team knowledge, skills, and engagement through collaborative technical workshops and other relevant forums.
• Mentors and evaluates engineers, actively fostering and sustaining a robust talent pipeline. Regularly participates in performance reviews and calibration sessions.
• A quick and eager learner who actively seeks opportunities to contribute to other Intuit codebases and open-source projects.
• Possesses expertise in cloud technologies and in architecting and delivering highly scalable and resilient systems.

• 8+ years of experience in designing and developing high scale distributed systems / AI applications
• Experience on AI, Machine Learning Models, LLM, Gen AI
• Experience on Observability Domain (Traces/Logs/Metrics)
• Experience working with three or more of the following: Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, workflow automation, CI/CD platform development, cloud platforms development (e.g., AWS/GCP), and Kubernetes/container platforms-based development.
• Proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Java and Python.
• Experience in Kubernetes and Docker container-based development, packaging, and deployments.
• Familiarity with open-source technologies.
• Experience with various modern web frameworks, cloud/SaaS, and the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in messaging/queueing systems.
• Experienced in developing highly scalable and available web applications.
• Exhibit strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Perform hands-on data analysis and modeling with huge data sets.
• Apply data mining, NLP, and machine learning (both supervised and unsupervised) to improve relevance and personalization algorithms.
• Work side-by-side with product managers, software engineers, and designers in designing experiments and minimum viable products.
• Discover data sources, get access to them, import them, clean them up, and make them “model-ready”. You need to be willing and able to do your own ETL.
• Create and refine features from the underlying data. You’ll enjoy developing just enough subject matter expertise to have an intuition about what features might make your model perform better, and then you’ll lather, rinse and repeat.
• Run regular A/B tests, gather data, perform statistical analysis, draw conclusions on the impact of your optimizations and communicate results to peers and leaders.
• Explore new design or technology shifts in order to determine how they might connect with the customer benefits we wish to deliver.

• 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

Preferred Additional Experience

• Apache Spark
• The Hadoop ecosystem
• Java
• HP Vertica
• TensorFlow, reinforcement learning
• Ensemble Methods, Deep Learning, and other topics in the Machine Learning community
• Familiarity with GenAI and other LLM and DL methods

Intuit is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Core Platform Engineering Team. The role requires developing and ensuring the seamless functioning and reliability of the Kubernetes Platform across Intuit. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing and maintaining Intuit Kubernetes Services (IKS) clusters hosting Intuit flagship products of TurboTax, Quickbooks, Mailchimp, as well as Intuit Platforms such as Identity, API Gateway, and Service Mesh. Responsibilities include all aspects of platform development, deployment, service adoption, configuration, optimization and troubleshooting. The ideal candidate must have expert knowledge of Kubernetes, AWS, cloud native design patterns, networking, troubleshooting, tools and automation.

• Applies comprehensive understanding of the business, customer needs to expertly design, develop and implement capabilities, tools and processes that deliver highly available, scalable and reliable customer experiences.
• Utilizes extensive expertise in system engineering, software development, critical thinking, industry best practices, and AI to develop innovative solutions towards building highly available, scalable and reliable platforms.
• Expertly builds, operates, and scales services running on AWS EKS. Collaborates closely with Intuit Product and Platform Development Teams to plan, prioritize and design highly available cloud architectures.
• Contributes to critical platform components and drives operational excellence through automation, observability, and process optimization.
• Troubleshoots complex issues and effectively manages stakeholder expectations through clear communication and proactive updates.
• Participates in on-call and support rotations, driving incident recovery, resolution and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Provides technical leadership by guiding the team on system design and implementation, ensuring best practices are implemented.
• Participates in mentoring junior and senior engineers, promoting an environment of learning and growth within the team.

To be considered for the role of Staff Software Engineer, candidates must possess the following qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field with a focus on Software Development, and Operational Excellence.
• Proven expertise in building, upgrading, and managing Kubernetes clusters.
• 7+ years of experience working in software development, production engineering, building and managing large-scale systems on AWS.
• 7+ years of solid development experience in building RESTful services using Go, Python, Java/J2EE (Spring, MVC, and Hibernate), and/or NodeJS. Candidates with experience in open-source development preferred.
• Experience with the development of applications and services in AWS, leveraging native cloud services and APIs.
• Hands-on experience working with Kubernetes, Docker, Springboot, React, and DynamoDB.
• Experience in using java unit testing frameworks like JUnit and Mockito.
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools such as Splunk, Wavefront, AWS CloudTrails, and Micrometer.
• Experience working in Java and Linux environments.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively.

Qualifications - a less stringent version

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Significant experience in developing and managing Kubernetes systems and cloud-based architectures, such as AWS, GCP and Azure.
• 7+ years of experience working in software development, production engineering, building and managing large-scale systems
• Proven capability in software development with a strong grasp of programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, or NodeJS.
• Familiarity with cloud services, APIs, Docker, and modern development frameworks, such as Springboot, React, SQL / NoSQL.
• Understanding of contemporary best practices in engineering such as continuous integration/delivery, infrastructure as code, and automated testing.
• Strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication abilities, and a collaborative approach to working in teams.

• Architecting and developing web, software, mobile apps, prototypes, or proofs of concepts (POC’s)
• Leading the gathering of functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and project & test planning
• Acting as the technical subject matter expert: Mentoring fellow engineers, demonstrating technical expertise, and leading a small team solving challenging programming and design problems
• Roughly 40-60% hands-on coding
• Generate technical documentation and presentations to communicate architectural and design options, and educate development teams and business users
• Work cross-functionally with various Intuit teams including: product management, various product lines, and/or business units to drive forward results
• Demonstrate a passion for developing well architected, elegant, web and/or mobile apps
• Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies

• 8+ years of experience designing and developing consumer-facing web applications as well as responsible for designing integration centric solutions with experience of modern API technologies
• Strong leadership experience: Leading meetings, presenting, technical go to person, and cross-functional leader.
• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience.
• Expertise with any of the following Object Oriented Languages (OOD): Java/J2EE, C#, .NET, Python, or sometimes C++.
• Expertise with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• 3+ years experience with web services (consuming or creating) with REST and GraphQL
• Excellent communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Expertise in the Software design/architecture process.
• Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD).
• Business Acumen - strategic thinking & strategy development.
• Building strong teams - set and evangelize vision, facilitative leadership, attract and retain key talent.