Principal Forward Deployed Engineer — AI-Native Invoicing
IntuitMountain View, CA · full time · Principal
$261,500 – $353,500
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What this role is
This Principal role embeds you directly with influential accountants and bookkeepers to understand their real invoicing workflows, then hand-craft AI-native solutions that solve their actual pain points before generalizing the best patterns into product capabilities. It's a founding-engineer loop that prioritizes field research and direct customer iteration over traditional spec-driven development.
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What they ask for
Required
- 10+ years software engineering experience
- Meaningful time in forward-deployed or customer-embedded engineering role
- Hands-on builder with modern AI/LLM patterns
- Comfortable with ambiguity in decision-making
- Superior communication skills explaining technical concepts to non-technical users
- Genuine comfort working with accounting professionals and SMB owners in their environment
- Willingness to travel regularly
Nice to have
- Prior work with Chamber of Commerce, SBA, SCORE, or small-business focused organization
- Background in accounting, bookkeeping, or fintech for SMBs
- Experience with QuickBooks, Intuit developer platform, or invoicing/payments systems