overview intuit is seeking a staff data scientist to join our ai futures team in mountain view ca the tech futures develops game changing technologies and experiments that redefine and disrupt our current product offerings youll be building and prototyping algorithms and applications on top of the collective financial data of 60 million consumers and small businesses applications will span multiple business lines including personal finance small business accounting and tax you thrive on ambiguity and will enjoy the frequent pivoting thats part of the exploration your team will be very small and team members frequently wear multiple hats in this position you will have close collaboration with the tech futures group engineering and design teams as well as the product and data teams in business units your role will range from research experimentalist to technology innovator to consultative business facilitator you must be comfortable partnering with those directly involved with big data infrastructure software and data warehousing as well as product management responsibilities excellent leadership and communication skills to influence and lead teams and to evangelize data science across the organization proven leadership experience in the domain of data science having a widelatitude in determining objectives and approaches to solution development on mission critical assignments going beyond established analytical thinking and problemsolving by applying creativity to unconventional concepts and outofthebox solutions be part of a dynamic and cohesive team of highly trained and successful researchers independence in the shaping and development of projects ability to quickly understand patterns within large quantity of data and to reference key characteristics using visualization techniques demonstrating strong programming skills in largescale data analysis using java r python or related software leveraging strong math skills and statistical knowledge to advanced data mining and data analysis activities related to next generation cloud technologies as an insight incubator works autonomously or leads teams to generate or shape new and highly critical business propositions that exploit and monetize big data research provides consultative guidance across intuits businesses on how best to utilize data for business decisionmaking and to build the organization mindset and capabilities needed to fully exploit this data as an asset works with business planners to propose innovative products and services that fully utilize the power of big data or that indicate the need for new data platforms and associated productservice functionality sets selfinitiated research objectives and exercises a wide latitude of discretionary judgment in exploring advances in artificial intelligence and applying innovative machine learning techniques to intuits data capturing and mining business strategy collaborates with infrastructure architects in assessing and addressing the requirements for more automated streamlined systems and for the data governance required for agile and responsive data manipulation introduces industryleading or academicbased ideas research and insights required by intuit leadership to solve complex questions or fuel new business opportunities acts as an advisor in overseeing and mentoring the work of colleagues towards the building of a vibrant practice community qualifications ms in engineering mathematics statistics theoreticalcomputational physics or related field solid knowledge