Staff AI Scientist at Intuit

Type: Full-time
Level: not_specified

Description

Foresight is looking for a Staff AI Scientist to lead the development of next-generation foundational language models and agentic systems. The role involves defining technical strategies, building and advancing new model architectures, solving real-world financial problems using Intuit's data, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship scalable products. The scientist will also mentor junior staff and contribute to publishing research.

Required Skills

Large Language Models
Multimodal Models
Foundation Models
Transformer Architectures
Reinforcement Learning
Reasoning Models
Agentic Systems
Python

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Technical leadership on complex AI systems.
Proven experience with LLMs, multimodal, or foundation models.
Deep understanding of transformer architectures, reinforcement learning, reasoning models, and agentic systems.
Strong proficiency in Python and modern ML and agentic frameworks.
Demonstrated ability to build end-to-end AI pipelines, from experimentation to production at scale.
Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams and mentoring other scientists and engineers.
Preferred Qualifications: Experience applying RL fine-tuning (GRPO, RLHF/RLFT) or model-based RL to language or decision-making systems.
Background in financial, accounting, or business-domain AI, or in probabilistic forecasting and world models is a major advantage.
Publications at top ML venues or meaningful open-source contributions.