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Base Salary
$274k - $371k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define Rapid7’s AI technology vision, architecture strategy, and multi-year roadmap across its security platform.
- Shape company-wide investment and model strategy, including build-versus-buy-versus-partner decisions and model capability investments.
- Sponsor and guide high-risk, high-impact AI initiatives across multiple organizations and resolve the hardest technical challenges.
- Establish engineering, evaluation, safety, and responsible-AI standards for AI systems.
- Partner with executive leadership to align AI strategy with business strategy, product direction, and customer needs.
- Anticipate changes in AI and the threat landscape and drive strategic responses.
- Mentor Senior Principal, Principal, and Staff engineers and develop future AI engineering leaders.
- Represent Rapid7 as an industry voice in AI and security with customers, partners, researchers, and standards bodies.
Requirements
- 16+ years of software or ML engineering experience.
- 2+ years leading the design of production LLM or agentic AI systems.
- Authoritative expertise in LLMs and AI systems, including transformer architecture, training, post-training, evaluation, and inference optimization at scale.
- Company-scale experience defining technical strategy and platforms with broad product or business impact.
- Deep technical breadth across predictive AI, classical ML, distributed systems, and data platforms.
- Experience shaping evaluation strategy, safety, and responsible-AI practices for LLM and agent systems.
- Experience scaling AI workloads in production, ideally on AWS.
- Strong technical leadership, communication, stakeholder alignment, mentoring, and strategic decision-making abilities.
- Sustained recognition as an AI industry expert through publications, patents, open-source leadership, or influence in industry and standards bodies.
- A PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, or a related field is preferred, or equivalent depth of expertise demonstrated through industry experience and technical contributions.
Benefits
- Remote work is indicated by the #LI-Remote designation.
- The stated U.S. annual base salary range is $273,900.00-$370,500.00, excluding variable or incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Rapid7 offers a collaborative, inclusive workplace focused on cybersecurity innovation and multidisciplinary teams.
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About Rapid7
Rapid7 builds a cloud security operations platform and services for enterprises, combining vulnerability management, detection and response (SIEM/XDR and MDR), application security testing, and security automation. Its Insight platform products include InsightVM, InsightIDR, InsightAppSec, and InsightConnect, sold as subscriptions with optional managed services. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Boston, the NASDAQ-listed company (RPD) serves more than 11,500 customers worldwide.