Staff AI Engineer

About Acquia

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers developers and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers enhance conversions and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in Boston MA Acquia is a Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM company is listed as one of the world’s top software companies by The Software Report and is positioned as a market leader by the analyst community. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it! 

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You will discover the opportunity to grow your career here and learn from a global team that empowers you to exceed boundaries and achieve the extraordinary.

Acquia is the digital experience platform built for a world where your audience isn't only human. Its agents too.

As AI agents become active participants in how people discover consume and act on digital content Acquia gives enterprise teams the platform to create manage and distribute experiences designed for both. Powered by agentic AI that orchestrates — not just advises — Acquia automates complex digital workflows within the governance guardrails large organizations require.

The world's #1 Drupal hosting provider Acquia brings together Content Management Digital Asset Management and Product Information Management in a single AI-powered Command Center: Acquia Source.

Acquia. Built for every audience human or otherwise.

The Role: As an AI Staff Engineer within R&D you will drive the technical evolution of Acquia DAM a market-leading platform that transforms how global brands manage content using powerful AI features including auto-tagging automated facial recognition duplicate asset detection and natural language search. In this role you will work to deeply integrate DAM with the broader Acquia AI ecosystem architecting upcoming roadmap themes centered on autonomous asset governance agentic orchestration and smart visual transformations. Joining our collaborative AI-native engineering team you will actively identify the latest agentic practices and mentor developers as they leverage an evolving toolset—including OpenCode OpenSpec product specifications and a diverse matrix of foundational models and skills—to drive rapid development testing and cutting-edge feature delivery.

Key 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.

Required Experience

• 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.

Desired Skills

• 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.

We are an organization that embraces innovation and the potential of AI to enhance our processes and improve our work. We are always looking for individuals who are open to learning new technologies and collaborating with AI tools to achieve our goals.

Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees and their families maintain a healthy body and mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage wellness programs take it when you need it time off parental leave recognition programs and much more! 

Acquia is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability protected veterans status or any other protected status or characteristic under federal state or local law unrelated to the ability to perform the job.

We are seeking an AI-Native candidate who treats AI not as an external tool but as a fundamental extension of their cognitive workflow. The ideal candidate possesses an orchestration mindset—the ability to skillfully prompt manage and direct AI to navigate complexity—and maintains a high degree of AI fluency.

You should be characterized by radical adaptability and a "builder" mentality showing a restless drive to transform traditional work processes into agentic workflows. Beyond technical proficiency we value intellectual humility: the willingness to constantly unlearn old methods in favor of more efficient AI-augmented processes. You don't just use AI to do your job; you use it to redefine what your job can achieve.

What We Do

Acquia is the open digital experience company. We provide the world's most ambitious brands with products built around Drupal to allow them to embrace innovation and create customer moments that matter. At Acquia we believe in the power of community and collaboration — giving our customers and partners the freedom to build tomorrow on their terms.

Why Work With Us

At Acquia we value the differences in our life experiences and viewpoints. We believe that cultivating and supporting a diverse team globally is directly tied to our success as an organization fueling greater innovation productivity and business outcomes. We make it possible for all Acquians to make a lasting impact.

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