Intuit

Principal Engineer - Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

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2 months ago

Base Salary

$261k - $353k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define reusable architecture patterns, integration standards, and agent-platform guardrails for Forward Deployed Engineering engagements.
  • Own the technical review bar for production deployments, including security and compliance sign-off requirements.
  • Partner with Enterprise Accountant Suite engineering leadership to align customer-specific work with the core platform roadmap.
  • Act as the technical escalation point for difficult architecture decisions, platform limitations, and production incidents across simultaneous customer engagements.
  • Review and write code, review integration architecture, and directly handle high-stakes customer escalations.
  • Travel to customer sites as needed, up to 30–40%.
  • Own the framework for quantifying and validating automation ROI and coach Staff FDEs and pod leads on defending business cases to economic buyers.
  • Translate recurring field patterns into structured, prioritized input for Product Engineering.
  • Create implementation guides, architecture references, and reusable assets to make future engagements faster and more repeatable.
  • Partner with FDE leadership to distinguish shared platform capabilities from customer-specific implementations and set technical standards for a distributed team.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of hands-on experience in customer-embedded engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, technical consulting, or an equivalent field, with progression into technical leadership or principal-level scope.
  • Deep hands-on experience with agentic AI systems, including LangChain, LangGraph, MCP servers, multi-agent orchestration, RAG, vector stores, and hybrid retrieval.
  • Experience with LLMs and related tooling, including OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini Code Assist.
  • Advanced prompt-engineering experience sufficient to review and improve other engineers’ agent designs.
  • Deep experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, webhooks, SQL, and enterprise integrations.
  • Experience serving as a technical escalation point across multiple simultaneous engagements under delivery and revenue pressure.
  • Demonstrated ability to build and defend quantified ROI cases to CFOs, Controllers, or equivalent economic buyers, and coach others to do so.
  • Experience translating field-level technical feedback into structured, prioritized product input.
  • Technical fluency and credibility to operate as a peer with Principal and Staff engineers in Product Engineering.
  • Preferred background in high-growth SaaS, applied AI, fintech, ERP, or accounting-related domains.
  • Preferred domain experience in construction, nonprofit, manufacturing, wealth management, health care, franchise, or field services.
  • Preferred experience establishing technical standards or architecture-review practices for distributed embedded or field-engineering teams.
  • Non-traditional backgrounds such as military service, management consulting, competitive programming, or a PhD are welcomed.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package with performance-based rewards.
  • May be eligible for cash bonus, equity rewards, and benefits under applicable plans and programs.
  • New York work location with customer-site travel as needed, up to 30–40%.

Tech Stack

GraphQLSQL

Categories

Forward Deployed
Intuit

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