Acquia

Staff AI Engineer

Acquia
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19 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+

Base Salary

$145k - $159k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Write and ship production AI code daily as an active contributor.
  • Architect stateful, cyclic, multi-agent workflows using LangGraph, Temporal, and Pydantic.
  • Own AI observability through LangFuse, including tracing, prompt versioning, evaluation, and performance benchmarking.
  • Set engineering standards for agent design patterns, RAG, prompt management, context optimization, and tool-calling strategies.
  • Partner with product and platform teams to deliver AI architectures meeting enterprise SLA, security, and compliance requirements.
  • Evaluate emerging LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and agentic-stack tooling.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing sessions, and design discussions without management responsibilities.
  • Represent Acquia’s AI capabilities in customer architectural reviews, technical discovery, and roadmap conversations.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years of production experience with AI agents.
  • Hands-on expertise with LangGraph, Temporal, Pydantic, and LangFuse.
  • Experience with agent harness frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or CrewAI.
  • Deep Python proficiency and strong engineering fundamentals, including testing, CI/CD, and architecture.
  • Cloud AI deployment experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including containerization and inference cost management.
  • Knowledge of RAG architecture, vector databases, embedding models, and retrieval strategies.
  • B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with enterprise SaaS or CMS is desired, including familiarity with Acquia’s Drupal-based DXP.
  • Fluency with AI-assisted coding tools such as Copilot, Cursor, or Claude is desired.
  • Familiarity with persistent agent runtimes such as OpenClaw and Hermes Agent is desired.
  • LLM fine-tuning or model evaluation experience and awareness of foundational model tradeoffs are desired.
  • Experience with human-in-the-loop, interrupt-driven agents and enterprise design is desired.
  • Strong communication skills for presenting AI system designs to engineers and C-suite stakeholders are desired.
  • A senior individual-contributor track record with high-quality code and system designs and organic mentoring is desired.

Benefits

  • Competitive healthcare coverage.
  • Wellness programs.
  • Take-it-when-you-need-it time off.
  • Parental leave.
  • Recognition programs.
  • Additional benefits for employees and their families.
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