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title: 'Staff AI Engineer at Acquia'
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# Staff AI Engineer at Acquia

- **Company:** Acquia
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $145k–$159k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/acquia/jobs/8134340

## Job description

## About Acquia

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: Acquia is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to join our AI Core Engineering team. This is first and foremost a hands-on engineering role — you will spend the majority of your time designing, building, and shipping production-grade agentic AI workflows across the Acquia DXP. LangGraph, Temporal, Pydantic and LangFuse are your primary tools; enterprise reliability, observability, and scale are your standards. You'll also play a light but meaningful mentoring role, helping to lift the AI engineering capability of those around you as the team grows.

## 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 offerings to our employees and their families in maintaining both a healthy body and a healthy 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. We hire without regard to age, color, disability, gender (including gender identity), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. For more information about our commitment to inclusivity and diversity, please visit our [Diversity and Inclusion page](https://www.acquia.com/about-us/diversity-inclusion). Pay Range $145,000—$158,500 USD

## About Acquia

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Acquia provides the open digital experience platform (DXP) built on Drupal, helping enterprise marketing teams manage content, assets, and AI agents in a single workspace with built-in governance.
- **Entity Type**: Private (majority owned by Vista Equity Partners since 2019)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States (53 State Street, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02109)
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Dries Buytaert (co-founded Acquia, also creator of Drupal)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Digital Experience Platforms (DXP), Content Management (CMS), Digital Asset Management (DAM), AI-driven content operations
- **Target customers**: Enterprise marketing teams, Fortune 500 brands, government agencies, global universities (e.g., Dana-Farber, Bayer, AB InBev, Mars, Crayola, Shake Shack, Warner Music Group, Stanford University)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Help companies effectively and efficiently manage content on their terms, build remarkable experiences, and connect more powerfully with their audiences." (from [acquia.com/about-us](https://www.acquia.com/about-us))

## Products & Services
- **Acquia Source**: A command center unifying content creation, digital asset management, and AI agents into one workspace. Designed for marketing teams to create, approve, and scale content with governance, removing handoffs between CMS, DAM, and workflow tools. (SaaS / Platform)
- **Acquia Cloud Platform**: The only infrastructure built exclusively for Drupal, offering 99.99% uptime SLA, FedRAMP and HIPAA compliance, and preemptive threat mitigation. Supports single to thousands of sites managed from a single interface. (PaaS / Cloud Infrastructure)
- **Acquia AI (Digital Teammates)**: AI agents that build sites, write content, maintain accessibility and SEO standards, with human-in-the-loop review. Native MCP (Model Context Protocol) support allows integration with agents like Claude, Cursor, Copilot. (AI / Agentic automation)
- **Multi Experience Operations**: Enables scaling from one site to thousands across channels. (SaaS)
- **280+ Integrations**: Connects with ERPs, analytics, commerce, marketing automation tools via Drupal’s open architecture and Acquia’s integration library. (Ecosystem)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metrics**: 
  - Annual Revenue: $201.1M (as reported on LinkedIn via [linkedin.com/company/acquia](https://www.linkedin.com/company/acquia))
  - Total Funding: $173.5M across 9 prior funding rounds (per LinkedIn)
  - Customers: 4,000+ organizations (per [acquia.com/about-us](https://www.acquia.com/about-us))
  - Employees: 1,000+ globally across 30+ countries (per [acquia.com/careers](https://www.acquia.com/careers))
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Vista Equity Partners (majority stake since 2019), Dries Buytaert (executive chairman). Over 700 global partners.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount: 877 employees (-0.7% YoY per LinkedIn, but career page reports 1,000+ globally – may reflect difference in counting)
  - New product launch: Acquia Source (2025) – command center for AI-forward marketing
  - Expansion of AI capabilities with native MCP support
  - Serving Fortune 500 brands and government agencies with FedRAMP compliance

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source moat**: Built on Drupal, the open-source CMS created by Acquia’s co-founder. The company is the number-one contributor to Drupal core for over 15 years.
- **Exclusive Drupal infrastructure**: Only cloud platform built exclusively for Drupal; 99.99% uptime SLA, FedRAMP / HIPAA compliant.
- **Composable, not rigid**: Open architecture allows customers to connect their existing martech stack without lock-in.
- **Built-in governance**: Every AI action goes through human-in-the-loop review, with brand safety, compliance, and audit trails integrated into the workflow – not bolted on.
- **AI discoverability**: Content is structured natively for AI search (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) without separate optimization steps.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first digital experience**: Launching Acquia Source as a unified workspace for content, assets, and AI agents, targeting enterprise marketing teams that struggle with fragmented tooling.
- **Agentic automation**: Expanding digital teammates that act autonomously (write content, optimize SEO, maintain accessibility) while keeping humans in the loop.
- **MCP (Model Context Protocol) support**: Enabling any AI agent to connect directly to Acquia’s content platform, following an open protocol philosophy.
- **Continued open-source leadership**: Investing in the Drupal community and open architecture to differentiate from closed DXPs.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Acquia emphasizes four core values: "Dare to Be Different" (authenticity, inclusion), "Do the Right Thing" (integrity, respect), "Jump In and Own It" (speed, collaboration), "Give Back More" (community service, open-source roots), and "Committed to Awesome" (customer success). (from [acquia.com/careers](https://www.acquia.com/careers))
- **Work environment**: Global team with flexibility – "greater flexibility in where we work" is stated, implying remote/hybrid options. Employees across 30+ countries.
- **Awards**: Great Place to Work certified; recognized for award-winning culture.
- **Growth & learning**: Acquia Academy provides education and learning resources. Annual People, Culture & Community roadmap with speakers, events, and inclusion initiatives.
- **Perks**: Community involvement (volunteer programs, gift drives). Collaborative environment that "inspires employees to make their biggest impact".

## Sources
1. [acquia.com/about-us](https://www.acquia.com/about-us)
2. [acquia.com/careers](https://www.acquia.com/careers)
3. [acquia.com/careers/culture](https://www.acquia.com/careers/culture)
4. [acquia.com](https://www.acquia.com/)
5. [linkedin.com/company/acquia](https://www.linkedin.com/company/acquia)

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