Intuit Inc

Principal Software Engineer

Intuit Inc • $261K — $353K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or related field
  • 8+ years in systems/software development for large organizations
  • 5+ years in designing complex distributed systems or business applications, preferably ERP
  • Strong practical experience in applied AI, including traditional ML and Generative AI
  • Familiarity with modern AI/agentic components and architectures
  • Proficient in one or more programming languages: Java, Python, TypeScript
  • Experience in software development lifecycle methodologies like SCRUM/Agile.

Responsibilities

  • Leverage advanced AI and agentic technology to create AI-native ERP solutions
  • Design and build the architecture for an AI-native ERP focusing on agents and automation
  • Develop AI-driven workflows incorporating seamless human collaboration
  • Create intelligent systems to capture data insights and improve decision-making
  • Evaluate AI patterns and set the technical course for their adoption
  • Lead major technology initiatives across various architecture layers
  • Implement scalable and secure services that meet reliability and safety standards.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Cash bonus and equity rewards
  • Support for performance-based rewards
  • Commitment to fair pay practices across different demographics
Full Job Description
Come join the GBSG Mid-Market PD team as a Principal Software Engineer. Mid-Market is one of the fastest growing segments of the business, and we are on a mission to build the industry's truly AI-native ERP. This is a rare opportunity to come in at the ground floor and shape both the product and the technology foundation - reimagining how mid-market businesses run their operations with AI at the core, not bolted on. As a Principal Engineer, your key responsibility will be to leverage the state of the art in AI and agentic technology to enable AI-native product experiences that fundamentally change how our customers work.

Responsibilities

- Leverage the state of the art in AI and agentic technology to design and deliver AI-native product experiences for mid-market ERP customers

- Shape and build the architecture of an AI-native ERP from the ground up - where agents, automation, and human collaboration are first-class design principles

- Build AI-native workflows embedding AI-driven automation with seamless AI-to-human collaboration (human-in-the-loop, approvals, explainability)

- Design AI-native intelligent systems that proactively capture data signals, prevent issues before they occur, automate processes, and improve decision making

- Evaluate and apply emerging AI/agentic patterns (LLM orchestration, multi-agent systems, tool use, retrieval, evaluation frameworks) and set the technical direction for their adoption

- Drive significant technology initiatives end to end and across multiple layers of architecture

- Drive design and implementation of durable software solutions that solve critical customer problems in the mid-market segment

- Make data-backed decisions and drive the right level of instrumentation, evaluation, and experimentation for AI-powered features

- Deliver technical design and implement highly available, scalable, and secure services with excellent quality - including the reliability, safety, and observability standards required for production AI systems

- Capture requirements and use cases in partnership with product and design

- Partner with other groups both inside and outside of Intuit for cross-functional design, solution integration, and onboarding of SaaS/PaaS/web/mobile offerings

- Recommend development best practices, tools, and paradigms - including AI-assisted development workflows

- Actively stay abreast of AI/agentic, SaaS, and PaaS trends and standards; recommend best practices and share learning

- Pursue and resolve complex or uncharted technical problems and share key learnings

- Provide technical leadership and be a role model to software engineers pursuing a technical career path

- Coach and mentor other engineers in AI-native development practices, process, and methodologies

- Provide perspective on leading industry trends, recommendations on new and emerging technologies, technology prototypes, patent proposals, and engineering process improvements

Qualifications

- BS/MS in Computer Science or related area

- 8+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments

- 5+ years of experience designing complex distributed systems, management products, or business applications (ERP, financials, or operations domains a strong plus)

- Strong, demonstrated background in applied AI - both traditional ML and Generative AI. Hands-on development and production rollout of agentic experiences is a huge plus

- Experience with modern AI/agentic building blocks: LLM APIs and orchestration frameworks, prompt and context engineering, RAG/retrieval, tool use and function calling, multi-agent architectures, and evaluation/guardrail frameworks

- Strong design and coding skills in one or more of Java, Python, TypeScript; experience with REST/JSON service design

- Strong OOD and service-oriented/domain-driven design principles, with ability to implement them in a language of choice

- Strong experience leading design and implementation of robust and highly scalable web services

- Experience with real-time (Kafka, Pub/Sub) and batch processing architectures

- Background in data processing and data movement (e.g., Spark/PySpark, SageMaker, feature/vector stores) to power AI-driven experiences

- Experience instrumenting, evaluating, and iterating on AI systems in production (offline evals, online experimentation, quality/safety monitoring)

- Skilled in software development lifecycle processes; experience with SCRUM, Agile, and iterative approaches

- Able to operate at highly varying levels of abstraction - from business strategy to product strategy to high-level and detailed technical design to implementation

- Synthesize achievable solutions from diverse inputs, alternative sources (build/buy/partner), and complex data

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 ). 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 $261,500 - $353,500

About Intuit Inc

Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals. The company’s product portfolio includes TurboTax, a software solution that offers free tax filing, efile taxes, and income tax returns; Quicken; QuickBooks; Mint.com, and more. It also offers end-to-end solutions for online tax preparation, download products, mobile tax prep, mortgage interest and property tax, corporations tax, military tax, and more. Intuit was founded by Tom Proulx and Scott Cook in 1983 and is based in Mountain View, California. The company serves customers in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia with offices in the United States, Canada, India, U.K., and Singapore.

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Net Income
$1.7 billion
Founded
1983
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Revenue
$7.7 billion
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