Staff AI Engineer

Acquia

20h•$180,000 - $230,000

About The Position

Acquia is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to join our AI Core Engineering team. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing, building, and shipping production-grade agentic AI workflows across the Acquia DXP. The primary tools for this role are LangGraph, Temporal, and Pydantic, with a strong emphasis on enterprise reliability, observability, and scale. The role also involves a mentoring component to enhance the AI engineering capabilities of team members.

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience.
3+ years of experience in production AI Agents.
Hands-on LangGraph, Temporal, Pydantic expertise for stateful, cyclic, multi-agent workflows at enterprise scale.
Hands-on LangFuse expertise for tracing, evaluation, prompt management, and dataset-driven testing.
Proficiency with agent harness frameworks such as LangChain or similar (e.g., LlamaIndex, CrewAI), including 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.
Knowledge of RAG architecture, including vector databases, embedding models, and retrieval strategies.
B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

Enterprise SaaS or CMS experience, including familiarity with Acquia's Drupal-based DXP.
Fluency in agentic development workflows, utilizing AI-assisted coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude).
Familiarity with persistent agent runtimes like OpenClaw and Hermes Agent, understanding cross-session memory, autonomous skill creation, and always-on agent infrastructure.
Experience with LLM fine-tuning or model evaluation, and awareness of foundational model tradeoffs.
Experience with human-in-the-loop systems, interrupt-driven agents, and enterprise design.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to present AI system designs to both engineers and C-suite stakeholders.
Proven track record as a Senior Individual Contributor, known for code quality and system designs, with organic mentoring through great work.

Responsibilities

Write and ship production AI code daily as an active contributor.
Architect agentic AI workflows using LangGraph, Temporal, Pydantic, focusing on stateful, multi-agent workflows built for enterprise scale and reliability.
Own AI observability via LangFuse, including 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 through code reviews, pairing sessions, and design discussions.
Represent Acquia's AI capabilities in customer architectural reviews, technical discovery, and roadmap conversations.