# Principal AI Engineer

Our Engineering organisation is scaling its AI Engineering capabilities under new leadership, creating an opportunity to build the next generation of AI at Rapid7. We're looking for Principal AI Engineers to join us and help shape what comes next by defining and influencing the technical direction of our LLM and agentic AI systems. As a Principal AI Engineer, you'll raise the bar for engineering standards, and build truly cutting edge greenfield solutions that deliver real impact for our Global customers. Through your technical leadership and mentoring, you'll help shape our product and platform investments and influence how we build and scale AI across the organisation. About The Team AI is reshaping cybersecurity on both sides. Attackers can use AI to strike at machine speed, and only AI-powered defense can keep up. At the same time, organizations can only adopt AI with confidence if it is secure. Rapid7 sits at the intersection of security and AI, and we are building industry-defining products for this new era. Rapid7's AI Engineering team builds the AI that powers our security platform. We are AI engineers and applied scientists who take models from research to production, c

- **Id**: 3703665
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rapid7-principal-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pune, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T17:23:35Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-03T17:23:35Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7035
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Information Security

## Company

- **Id**: 12657
- **Name**: Rapid7
- **Domain**: rapid7.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/rapid7>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Context Engineering** — Optional: no
- **DeepSpeed** — Optional: no
- **DPO** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **FSDP** — Optional: no
- **GRPO** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: no
- **KV Cache** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: no
- **LoRA** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **QLoRA** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **SGLang** — Optional: no
- **Speculative Decoding** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT-LLM** — Optional: no
- **Tokenization** — Optional: no
- **vLLM** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **CUDA** — Optional: yes
- **PEFT** — Optional: yes
- **Pre-training** — Optional: yes
- **TensorRT** — Optional: yes
- **Triton** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T20:09:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: seen:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

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