Principal AI Engineer
Rapid7 (company site, opens in a new tab)12+ yrsPuneOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 45–70 LPA
Posted 1d ago
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About This Role
- Define architecture and technical roadmap for LLM and agentic AI systems in security products across Detection and Response and Exposure and Remediation domains.
- Lead model strategy and optimize LLM inference at scale including fine-tuning, distillation, and deployment on security data.
- Provide technical leadership by setting engineering standards, leading design reviews, resolving technical trade-offs, prototyping critical components, and mentoring senior engineers.
Minimum Requirements
- 12+ years of software or ML engineering experience, including 2+ years building production LLM or agentic AI systems.
- Deep expertise in transformer architecture, LLM training, fine-tuning, inference optimization, and hands-on experience with PyTorch and distributed training.
- Experience with LLM evaluation strategies and benchmarks, and strong distributed systems and Python fundamentals.
- Work Experience Required: 12+ years software/ML engineering, at least 2 years in production LLM/agentic AI systems.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Technical leader with proven track record influencing organization-wide AI standards and scalable production AI systems used across multiple teams/products.
- Strong hands-on ability to implement and optimize complex AI models and systems from first principles including custom training and inference code.
- Experienced in connecting customer needs and business priorities to technical AI solutions, balancing accuracy, latency, and cost for measurable business impact.