Acquia

Staff AI Engineer

Acquia
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19 days ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Write and ship production AI code as an active individual 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.
  • Establish engineering standards for agent design, RAG, prompt management, context optimization, and tool calling.
  • Partner with product and platform teams on AI architectures meeting enterprise SLA, security, and compliance requirements.
  • Evaluate LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and other agentic tooling.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, 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.
  • Proficiency with agent harness frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or CrewAI.
  • Deep Python proficiency and strong software engineering fundamentals.
  • Experience deploying cloud AI systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including containerization and inference cost management.
  • Knowledge of RAG architectures, vector databases, embedding models, and retrieval strategies.
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include enterprise SaaS or CMS experience, familiarity with Acquia’s Drupal-based DXP, AI-assisted development with Copilot, Cursor, or Claude, persistent agent runtime familiarity, LLM fine-tuning or model evaluation experience, human-in-the-loop agent design, and the ability to present system designs to technical and executive stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Healthcare coverage, wellness programs, flexible time off, parental leave, recognition programs, and additional employee benefits.
  • Equal opportunity employment with consideration without regard to protected characteristics.
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