Arcadia

Staff Applied AI Engineer, Product & Agent Performance

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Base Salary

$175k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and iterate on agent behavior across live, long-horizon, multi-turn, and multi-agent workflows.
  • Design retrieval, context, memory, and state architectures that keep agents grounded in source data.
  • Create prompt and context templates using few-shot examples, structured formatting, and reasoning scaffolding.
  • Improve agent performance through prompting, tool-use strategy, and context construction validated by experimentation.
  • Build production-grounded evaluations to measure performance, regressions, failure modes, and edge cases.
  • Author severity- and cost-weighted evaluation rubrics, quality heuristics, and thresholds.
  • Design and validate confidence- and uncertainty-based escalation paths to human review.
  • Optimize cost-aware performance across latency, reliability, accuracy, context construction, and tool-call economy.
  • Evaluate model changes, run comparative baselines, and make go/no-go launch decisions.
  • Maintain product-level AI documentation including model cards, intended use, limitations, and failure modes.
  • Partner with Product, product managers, and Engineering to make agents steerable, trustworthy, and ready to scale.

Requirements

  • Equivalent practical experience demonstrating the depth required for the staff-level role is valued.
  • 8+ years of production software engineering experience are required, including 3+ years of hands-on ownership of ML, LLM, or agentic systems in production.
  • Production experience with ML, LLM, or agentic systems must include direct experience in healthcare, finance, or another regulated industry.
  • Ability to diagnose agent failures and attribute fixes to instruction, retrieval, context, or memory design.
  • Ability to weigh failures by severity and cost rather than frequency alone.
  • Hands-on experience with RAG architecture, production-grounded evaluation frameworks, and fallback or human-in-the-loop logic.
  • Working familiarity with AWS AI/ML services, including Bedrock and SageMaker.
  • Evidence-led judgment, credibility to challenge launch decisions, and a hands-on experimentation and building approach.
  • Preferred: experience applying AI to healthcare data or workflows where safety, transparency, and calibrated uncertainty affect care teams or patients.
  • Preferred: experience with long-horizon, multi-turn, or multi-agent workflows and product-level AI documentation such as model cards.

Benefits

  • Flexible, remote-friendly work culture.
  • Employee-driven programs and initiatives supporting personal and professional development.
  • Membership in a diverse, purpose-driven Arcadian community.
  • Opportunity to define agent performance, safety, and readiness standards for production healthcare workflows.
  • Meaningful ownership across prompts, context, memory, evaluations, and escalation patterns at product scale.

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About Arcadia

501-1,000 employees

Arcadia is the global utility data and energy solutions platform. With our leading data platform, AI-powered analytics, industry expertise, and expansive partner network, we deliver solutions for every stage of the enterprise energy management lifecycle across carbon, cost, and reliability. Join us at www.arcadia.com/careers.