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Overview
The Tech Strategic Programs organization delivers for Intuit and Tech Strategy by transforming and driving how our Technology ecosystem operates to accelerate outcomes for our customers. This small, yet mighty team works with senior leaders and partners across the company. We focus on strategic planning, the operating rhythm, executive narratives, workforce programs and delivering intelligent insights that accelerate execution across the tech portfolio and highest priority business growth areas.
We are looking for a strategic and rigorous engineering leader who is passionate about innovation and approaches AI agent design as an engineering discipline. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will define the architectures, paved paths, and orchestration patterns that transform how Intuit executes its highest priorities. You will determine when to use agents, how to structure them (Single vs. Multi-Agent), and why specific topologies succeed where others fail.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Design and Build AI Agents: Architect, develop, and deploy AI agents and copilots that augment Intuit employees’ workflows, integrating with internal systems and tools.
- Own End-to-End AI Systems: Take solutions from concept to production—including model selection, prompt and context design, retrieval strategies, backend services, and conversational interfaces.
- Apply the Right Tool for the Problem: Evaluate business problems and determine whether they are best solved with LLMs, classical ML, or simpler rule-based approaches.
- Develop RAG and Context Pipelines: Build scalable, maintainable retrieval and context systems that provide high-quality grounding for AI agents.
- Innovate Through Rapid Prototyping: Create proofs-of-concept to explore new agent capabilities, frameworks, and integrations, then harden successful ideas for production use.
- Ensure Production Readiness & Reliability: Design systems that are secure, cost-efficient, and robust at enterprise scale. You will implement orchestration layers that minimize error amplification in multi-step workflows, ensuring that agentic hallucinations are caught before they cascade.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with product managers, designers, platform teams, and business stakeholders to deliver meaningful outcomes.
- Mentor and Influence: Provide technical leadership, mentor other engineers, and help shape best practices for AI agent development across the organization.
What you’ll bring:
- Speed as a habit: Drive velocity in the organization by accelerating customer, business, and technology outcomes by identifying and driving key opportunities across the company.
- Thought leadership: You will collaborate with other leaders at Intuit to influence and develop strategic direction, systems roadmap, and business and operational processes by providing the required technical guidance. Driving significant technology initiatives end-to-end, including horizontal layers of the architecture.
- GenAI landscape mastery: Continuously explore emerging trends, tools, and techniques in Generative AI. Follow trends and research topics of leveraging AI/GenAI to improve workforce efficiency.
- Understands customer behaviors: Partner with cross-functional partners to influence and drive end-to-end solutions for customer problems. Execute with a boundaryless mindset and contribute to solutions outside of your primary area of ownership.
- Durable Software solutions: Design and implement durable software solutions that will solve critical customer problems in a fast-paced environment. Create robust, scalable, and secure technical designs, effectively implementing them to balance short-term and long-term objectives, ensuring high availability and optimal performance of applications.
- Passionate for continuous learning: experimenting, and applying cutting-edge technology and software paradigms to solve customer problems. Be prepared to get hands-on and debug complex issues or create fully working POCs which teams can take forward.
- Communicate effectively: Explain complex designs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and drive consensus.
Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related area
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or related roles building large-scale, production systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python is required; experience with other programming languages (e.g., Java, J2EE) is a plus.
- Hands-on experience designing and deploying AI systems using large language models (LLMs) in real-world applications.
- Experience evaluating LLMs against traditional ML algorithms, with the ability to justify architectural tradeoffs based on cost, latency, and accuracy.
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Experience building and maintaining:
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines
- Agent frameworks and orchestration patterns
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers or equivalent tool-use / function-calling architectures
-
Conversational or chat-based interfaces (internal tools, copilots, or assistants)
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Ability to work independently, manage ambiguity, and deliver incrementally under aggressive timelines.
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. 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: Bay Area California $220,500 - $298,500 Southern California $205,500 - $277,500.

Overview
The Tech Strategic Programs organization delivers for Intuit and Tech Strategy by transforming and driving how our Technology ecosystem operates to accelerate outcomes for our customers. This small, yet mighty team works with senior leaders and partners across the company. We focus on strategic planning, the operating rhythm, executive narratives, workforce programs and delivering intelligent insights that accelerate execution across the tech portfolio and highest priority business growth areas.
We are looking for a strategic and rigorous engineering leader who is passionate about innovation and approaches AI agent design as an engineering discipline. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will define the architectures, paved paths, and orchestration patterns that transform how Intuit executes its highest priorities. You will determine when to use agents, how to structure them (Single vs. Multi-Agent), and why specific topologies succeed where others fail.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Design and Build AI Agents: Architect, develop, and deploy AI agents and copilots that augment Intuit employees’ workflows, integrating with internal systems and tools.
- Own End-to-End AI Systems: Take solutions from concept to production—including model selection, prompt and context design, retrieval strategies, backend services, and conversational interfaces.
- Apply the Right Tool for the Problem: Evaluate business problems and determine whether they are best solved with LLMs, classical ML, or simpler rule-based approaches.
- Develop RAG and Context Pipelines: Build scalable, maintainable retrieval and context systems that provide high-quality grounding for AI agents.
- Innovate Through Rapid Prototyping: Create proofs-of-concept to explore new agent capabilities, frameworks, and integrations, then harden successful ideas for production use.
- Ensure Production Readiness & Reliability: Design systems that are secure, cost-efficient, and robust at enterprise scale. You will implement orchestration layers that minimize error amplification in multi-step workflows, ensuring that agentic hallucinations are caught before they cascade.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with product managers, designers, platform teams, and business stakeholders to deliver meaningful outcomes.
- Mentor and Influence: Provide technical leadership, mentor other engineers, and help shape best practices for AI agent development across the organization.
What you’ll bring:
- Speed as a habit: Drive velocity in the organization by accelerating customer, business, and technology outcomes by identifying and driving key opportunities across the company.
- Thought leadership: You will collaborate with other leaders at Intuit to influence and develop strategic direction, systems roadmap, and business and operational processes by providing the required technical guidance. Driving significant technology initiatives end-to-end, including horizontal layers of the architecture.
- GenAI landscape mastery: Continuously explore emerging trends, tools, and techniques in Generative AI. Follow trends and research topics of leveraging AI/GenAI to improve workforce efficiency.
- Understands customer behaviors: Partner with cross-functional partners to influence and drive end-to-end solutions for customer problems. Execute with a boundaryless mindset and contribute to solutions outside of your primary area of ownership.
- Durable Software solutions: Design and implement durable software solutions that will solve critical customer problems in a fast-paced environment. Create robust, scalable, and secure technical designs, effectively implementing them to balance short-term and long-term objectives, ensuring high availability and optimal performance of applications.
- Passionate for continuous learning: experimenting, and applying cutting-edge technology and software paradigms to solve customer problems. Be prepared to get hands-on and debug complex issues or create fully working POCs which teams can take forward.
- Communicate effectively: Explain complex designs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and drive consensus.
Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related area
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or related roles building large-scale, production systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python is required; experience with other programming languages (e.g., Java, J2EE) is a plus.
- Hands-on experience designing and deploying AI systems using large language models (LLMs) in real-world applications.
- Experience evaluating LLMs against traditional ML algorithms, with the ability to justify architectural tradeoffs based on cost, latency, and accuracy.
-
Experience building and maintaining:
-
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines
- Agent frameworks and orchestration patterns
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers or equivalent tool-use / function-calling architectures
-
Conversational or chat-based interfaces (internal tools, copilots, or assistants)
-
Ability to work independently, manage ambiguity, and deliver incrementally under aggressive timelines.
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. 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: Bay Area California $220,500 - $298,500 Southern California $205,500 - $277,500.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an AI Engineer
Document your AI specialization precisely
PERM requires your employer to define a specific job requirement, so gather transcripts, publications, and project portfolios that tie your ML, NLP, or computer vision expertise to a clearly bounded specialty occupation before the labor certification begins.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Search Migrate Mate to filter AI Engineer roles by employers who have sponsored green cards before. A history of PERM filings signals an in-house process, reducing the delays that come from employers navigating sponsorship for the first time.
Clarify EB-2 versus EB-3 with your prospective employer
If your role requires an advanced degree or a specialized research background, push for EB-2 classification, which opens the National Interest Waiver path. Many AI Engineering roles qualify but get filed under EB-3 by default because employers use standard job description templates.
Verify the posted salary covers prevailing wage before signing
PERM requires DOL to certify that your offered wage meets or exceeds the prevailing wage for your role and location. Cross-check the offer against the OFLC Wage Search before accepting, because a wage shortfall forces your employer to restart the labor certification.
Ask employers about priority date strategy during interviews
Priority dates for India-born and China-born AI Engineers can mean multi-year waits at the EB-2 and EB-3 levels. Ask whether your employer files concurrently or immediately, and whether they use premium processing on the I-140 to lock in your priority date faster.
Align your O*NET job zone classification with USCIS standards
AI Engineer roles are classified in Job Zone 4 or 5 on O*NET, which supports specialty occupation arguments. Confirm that your employer's PERM job description references degree requirements consistent with that classification so USCIS approves the I-140 without a Request for Evidence.
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Find AI Engineer JobsAI Engineer Green Card Sponsorship: Frequently Asked Questions
Does my AI Engineer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most AI Engineer positions qualify for EB-2 when the role requires a master's degree or equivalent in computer science, machine learning, or a related field. If the employer requires only a bachelor's degree, EB-3 applies instead. Your employer's PERM labor certification must accurately reflect the minimum educational requirement the role genuinely needs, not just what you personally hold.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for AI Engineers?
H-1B is a temporary, renewable status tied to an employer and subject to an annual lottery. PERM sponsorship leads to permanent residency and has no lottery at the EB-3 level. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification, I-140 approval, and adjustment of status together take several years, compared to H-1B status that can begin within months of a cap-subject approval.
Which employers sponsor green cards for AI Engineers?
Large technology companies, AI-focused research labs, financial institutions running quantitative or risk modeling teams, and healthcare analytics firms regularly sponsor EB-2 and EB-3 green cards for AI Engineers. You can search Migrate Mate to filter AI Engineer roles specifically by employers with PERM filing history, narrowing your search to companies already familiar with the sponsorship process.
What happens to my green card case if I change employers mid-process?
Changing employers before your I-140 is approved generally requires restarting PERM with the new employer. After I-140 approval and once your priority date is current, the AC21 portability rule lets you transfer your case to a new employer offering a same or similar role without losing your priority date, which matters most for nationals of countries with long backlogs.
Can I self-petition for a green card as an AI Engineer without employer sponsorship?
Yes, if you have strong credentials. The EB-2 National Interest Waiver lets you self-petition without an employer or PERM labor certification if you can demonstrate your work in AI benefits the United States beyond your direct employer. Researchers publishing in peer-reviewed venues, contributors to open-source infrastructure, or specialists working on national security applications are common successful NIW petitioners in this field. Use Migrate Mate to identify roles at employers who also support NIW filings alongside traditional PERM.
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