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!
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.
