Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. As an AI Staff Engineer within R&D, you will drive the technical evolution of Acquia DAM, working on powerful AI features and integrating it with the broader Acquia AI ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Write and ship production AI code daily — you are an active contributor
- Architect agentic AI workflows using LangGraph, Temporal, Pydantic — stateful, multi-agent workflows built for enterprise scale and reliability
- Own AI observability via LangFuse: tracing, prompt versioning, evaluation, and performance benchmarking across all model interactions
- Set AI 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 that meet enterprise SLA, security, and compliance requirements
- Evaluate and adopt emerging tooling — benchmarking LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and agentic stack improvements
- Mentor engineers as a natural extension of your work — sharing knowledge through code reviews, pairing sessions, and design discussions, not through management overhead
- Represent Acquia's AI capabilities in customer architectural reviews, technical discovery, and roadmap conversations
Skills
- 8+ years of software engineering with 3+ years in production of AI Agents
- Hands-on LangGraph, Temporal, Pydantic expertise — stateful, cyclic, multi-agent workflows at enterprise scale
- Hands-on LangFuse expertise - tracing, evaluation, prompt management, and dataset-driven testing
- Proficiency with agent harness frameworks such as LangChain or similar (e.g. LlamaIndex, CrewAI) — composing chains, tools, memory, and retrieval pipelines
- Deep Python proficiency and strong engineering fundamentals (testing, CI/CD, architecture)
- Cloud AI deployment experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP) including containerization and inference cost management
- RAG architecture knowledge— vector databases, embedding models, and retrieval strategies
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- Enterprise SaaS or CMS, including familiarity with Acquia's Drupal-based DXP experience
- Agentic development workflow fluency — AI-assisted coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude) as everyday accelerators
- Familiarity with persistent agent runtimes - such as OpenClaw and Hermes Agent, understanding cross-session memory, autonomous skill creation, and always-on agent infrastructure as it matures in enterprise contexts
- LLM fine-tuning or model evaluation experience and awareness of foundational model tradeoffs
- Human-in-the-loop — interrupt-driven agents and enterprise design
- Strong communication skills — able to present AI system design to both engineers and C-suite stakeholders
- Senior IC track record — known for the quality of your own code and system designs, with mentoring that happens organically through great work, not through meetings
Benefits
- Competitive healthcare coverage
- Wellness programs
- Take it when you need it time off
- Parental leave
- Recognition programs
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