Director, Enterprise AI Platform & Agent Orchestration

acadiapharmaceuticals; Princeton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Acadia Pharmaceuticals seeks a Director of AI Engineering to lead the enterprise AI platform and agent ecosystem. You will drive scalable, secure AI-powered solutions with reusable templates, multi-agent orchestration, and self-service tools for business users.

The role partners with IT, Cybersecurity, and business stakeholders to ensure governance, scalability, and measurable value while accelerating enterprise AI adoption.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical discipline required.
• 8+ years of experience in engineering/AI-related roles.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain the enterprise agent platform - the system through which agents are developed, published, versioned, and coordinated, using frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, Anthropic Agents SDK, and OpenAI Agents SDK.
• Engineer multi-agent coordination patterns enabling agents with distinct roles, data access, and functional scope to collaborate reliably on complex, multi-step business workflows.
• Design and implement reusable agent templates, composable orchestration primitives, and agentic memory systems (short-term, long-term, episodic) that development teams and non-engineers can configure and deploy.
• Build human-in-the-loop escalation workflows and clearly defined agent action boundaries to ensure appropriate human oversight at high-risk decision points.
• Lead the design and delivery of a self-service RAG builder, including ingestion pipelines, chunking, embedding, vector store integration, hybrid retrieval, and reranking surfaced through a low-code interface accessible to non-technical users.
• Build and operate an enterprise tool and skill registry: a versioned catalog of APIs, functions, MCP servers, and data connectors that agents can securely discover and invoke, with schema contracts, authentication, and access controls.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

8+ years of experience in AI/Engineering

Job description

Acadia Pharmaceuticals seeks a Director of AI Engineering to lead the enterprise AI platform and agent ecosystem. You will drive scalable, secure AI-powered solutions with reusable templates, multi-agent orchestration, and self-service tools for business users.

The role partners with IT, Cybersecurity, and business stakeholders to ensure governance, scalability, and measurable value while accelerating enterprise AI adoption.