AI Platform Engineer II

Overview
We're hiring an AI Engineer to build production-ready, agentic AI experiences on Google Cloud (Vertex AI) and OpenAI. You'll ship real features-agents, tools, and lightweight UIs-that plug into our data and internal systems to improve productivity across the company.
Key Responsibilities:

• Agentic development on Vertex AI: Build and iterate multi-step agents with Vertex AI (Agent Builder / Gemini), including tool use, memory, and evaluation loops.
• MCP & tool integrations: Implement Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors and secure API integrations so agents can act on enterprise systems with least-privilege access.
• RAG & data grounding: Wire up retrieval (vector stores / embeddings), schema-aware prompts, and guardrails for accurate, auditable outputs.
• Vertex-based UI for agents: Prototype intuitive chat and task UIs (web or internal portals), including session history, tool invocation panels, and feedback widgets; embed agents into existing apps.
• Integration & Data Access: Connect AI agents with internal APIs and enterprise data (e.g., BigQuery or REST endpoints, or webhooks) using existing cloud tools.
• Quality & telemetry: Define success metrics (quality, latency, cost), add logging/observability, and run structured experiments to improve outcomes.

Requirements:

• 2-3 years in software/AI application engineering.
• Hands-on experience creating and deploying custom Gems (apps) within Gemini / Vertex AI Agent Builder, including configuration, grounding, and integration with enterprise data and APIs.
• Hands-on with Google Cloud (Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Run/Functions) and at least one LLM API (OpenAI or Gemini Preferred).
• Experience building small end-to-end features: backend APIs, prompt/agent logic, and a basic UI to demo/ship.
• Familiarity with agent frameworks (e.g., LangGraph/LangChain) and patterns like tool use, planning, and memory.
• Working knowledge of RAG concepts (chunking, embeddings, retrieval), plus prompt testing and evaluation basics.
• Strong collaboration skills; comfortable partnering with security, data, and app teams to ship safely and fast.

Nice to Have:

• Exposure to GCP IAM, secrets management, and enterprise compliance considerations.
• Familiarity with Vertex AI Search, vector databases, or event/webhook architectures.
• Interest in emerging standards (MCP), responsible AI practices, and cost/perf optimization.

About Rapid7
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