Principal AI Engineer

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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🔴 Lead

🤖 AI Engineer

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2000

🔒 Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

Rapid7 is a cybersecurity company that provides a range of solutions designed to secure cloud, identity, and endpoint products. The company's Command Platform utilizes artificial intelligence to offer deep insights into cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities. Rapid7's offerings include Managed XDR for continuous monitoring, detection, and incident response, as well as tools for attack surface management, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence. The company is known for its open-source projects like Metasploit and Velociraptor, which aid in vulnerability research and enhancing cybersecurity frameworks. Rapid7 also emphasizes community and culture, contributing to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and engages in public policy advocacy to strengthen cybersecurity on a broader scale. They serve over 11,000 global companies and deliver expert analysis on attack trends and emergent threats through Rapid7 Labs.

📋 Description

• Define the architecture and technical roadmap for LLM and agentic AI systems across Detection and Response and Exposure and Remediation • Lead model strategy, including selection of frontier or open-source models and decisions about fine-tuning, distillation and post-training • Fine-tune, distill and post-train open-source LLMs on security data from curation through training, evaluation and deployment • Set engineering standards for context engineering, inference optimization and evaluation across teams • Optimize LLM inference at scale using speculative decoding, KV-cache management, continuous batching, quantization and custom kernels • Establish evaluations as the release gate for every AI system shipped • Lead design reviews and resolve complex technical trade-offs • Prototype and build critical model, training and inference code hands-on • Mentor Staff and Senior engineers • Shape product and platform investment • Build AI systems powering cybersecurity use cases including alert triage, threat investigation, automated response, vulnerability prioritization, attack surface risk assessment and guided remediation

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of software or ML engineering experience • 2+ years building production LLM or agentic AI systems • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI or a related field preferred, or equivalent depth of expertise demonstrated through industry experience and technical contributions • Track record of building scalable, production-grade AI systems used across multiple teams or products • Deep understanding of transformer architecture, attention, tokenization, positional encodings, model training and serving • Ability to implement core LLM components from scratch • Expert-level PyTorch, including custom model code, training loops, mixed precision and distributed training such as FSDP and DeepSpeed • Hands-on full and parameter-efficient fine-tuning, including LoRA and QLoRA • Experience with distillation and preference or RL-based methods such as DPO and GRPO • Context engineering involving retrieval, memory and context management for long-running agent workflows • Deep knowledge of inference optimization, including prefill and decode, KV-cache management, continuous batching, speculative decoding, FlashAttention and quantization • Experience serving AI workloads at scale with vLLM, SGLang or TensorRT-LLM • Ability to define evaluation strategies and benchmarks for LLM and agent systems • Strong predictive AI and classical ML fundamentals • Strong distributed systems and Python fundamentals • Ownership of significant technical outcomes across multiple teams • Strong communication skills for explaining technical trade-offs • Ability to build cross-functional partnerships • Ability to connect customer needs and business priorities to technical decisions • Ability to embody the company’s core values • Preferred: experience pre-training or training LLMs from scratch • Preferred: experience writing GPU kernels using CUDA or Triton and profiling GPU workloads • Preferred: security domain experience such as detection engineering, SOC/MDR or vulnerability management • Preferred: experience running AI workloads on AWS at scale • Preferred: publications, patents or open-source AI contributions

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible/remote work arrangement indicated by the location options and #LI-Remote • Mentoring and technical leadership opportunities • Opportunity to shape product and platform investments • Collaborative, multi-dimensional team environment • Career development opportunity through challenging cybersecurity and AI work

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