Staff AI Engineer
Rapid7 (company site, opens in a new tab)8+ yrsPuneOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 35–60 LPA
Posted 1d ago
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About This Role
- Lead design, architecture, and delivery of LLM and agentic AI systems across Rapid7’s security product areas Detection and Response and Exposure and Remediation.
- Own end-to-end technical solutions including model strategy, fine-tuning, inference optimization, evaluation, and deployment to scale AI systems in production.
- Mentor engineers and drive alignment with Product and platform teams to translate customer needs into scalable, commercially viable AI security capabilities.
Minimum Requirements
- 8+ years software or ML engineering experience with 2+ years in production LLM or agentic AI system development.
- Deep expertise in transformer-based LLMs including training, fine-tuning, inference optimization, and evaluation benchmarks.
- Advanced PyTorch skills and experience with distributed training methods like FSDP or DeepSpeed.
- Work Experience Required: 8+ years with 2+ years specifically on production LLM or agentic AI systems; Master’s degree preferred or equivalent experience.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced technical leader able to drive complex AI projects with cross-team impact and clear execution strategy.
- Strong judgment in selecting AI approaches balancing predictive AI, classical ML, and LLMs for accuracy, latency, and cost.
- Hands-on expert in engineering production-grade AI systems requiring deep understanding of LLM internals, inference optimization, and fine-tuning on domain-specific security data.