Senior Platform Engineer - AI Enablement

Acuity Brands, Inc.; Broomfield, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Dental coverage

Vision plans

401K

Commissions/incentive compensation

Job summary

Acuity Brands, Inc. in the Denver/Boulder area is seeking a senior platform engineer to build and operate internal AI productivity tools and agents. You will work with a small, senior team to enable engineers and product teams, balancing hands-on development with developer relations.

You will define metrics, govern internal tooling, and collaborate with Security and IT to ensure secure deployment. The role emphasizes governance, scalability, and cross-team impact.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with platform-focus.
• Hands-on experience with agentic development and multi-agent systems.
• Experience with AI evaluation and benchmarking; proficient in prompt engineering.
• Knowledge of AI security/governance, especially for internal tooling.
• Proven track record delivering multi-month projects largely independently.
• Ability to design reusable platform abstractions and balance flexibility vs standardization.
• Excellent collaboration with Security and IT teams and other stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain internal AI productivity tools and the platform for distribution across engineering and product teams.
• Design, build, and operate internal AI agents and automations (standalone or embedded).
• Define productivity metrics and evaluate tools/agents against them, iterating based on results.
• Own AI governance for internal tooling, including guardrails, access controls, and deployment standards.
• Partner with Security and IT to enable AI tooling adoption and clear pathways.
• Manage identity and access for AI agents with the same rigor as human accounts.
• Lead training and enablement sessions to help engineers and PMs derive value from the tools.
• Treat adoption as an engineering problem; track outcomes and iterate the platform accordingly.
• Collaborate with teams building AI-powered product features without owning their roadmap.

Skills

Software engineering

Agentic development

AI evaluation

AI security

Independent projects

Platform abstractions

Security/IT collaboration

Platform engineering

Tools

Claude SDK

LangGraph

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tools

Claude Code

Job description

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Work Flexibility: Hybrid

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at www.acuityinc.com .

Work location:

• This position requires on-site presence in Broomfield, CO, following a hybrid work model.

Job Summary

About the Team

This team exists to make AIS’ engineers and product managers dramatically more productive with AI — it does not build the AI-powered features that ship inside AIS’ products (Atrius, Distech, and QSC already own that). Think of us as the internal platform/enablement group: we build the tools, agents, and standards that let the rest of product engineering move faster and safer with AI, and we own the metrics that prove it's working.

We're deliberately scoped as a tools and enablement team, not a research group or an organizational-transformation function — we make transformation possible for others rather than driving it ourselves.

About the Role

You'll be working shoulder-to-shoulder with a small, senior group to stand up the platform, tooling, and practices that the rest of engineering will rely on. This role blends hands-on software/platform engineering with a "developer relations" mindset — you're as motivated by making other engineers more effective as you are by building things yourself.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

• Build and maintain internal AI productivity tools and the platform used to develop, package, and distribute them across engineering and product development.
• Design, build, and operate internal AI agents and automations — whether standalone (e.g., agents running on a web service) or embedded (e.g., a skill invoked from a chat or IDE surface). We treat these as variations on the same underlying platform, and you may end up shipping the same capability in both forms.
• Define productivity metrics for engineering/product-development work and evaluate our tools and agents against them, iterating based on results.
• Own AI governance for internal tooling: guardrails and review processes (e.g., preventing token-cost regressions, bad context/prompt injection reaching an agent), access controls, and standards for what "safe to deploy" means for internal AI tools and agents.
• Partner with Security and IT to clear the path for AI tooling adoption — you'll need real influencing and communication skills to work through the friction that comes with that territory.
• Manage identity and access for AI agents distinctly from human users — as agents get real tool/system access, their credentials, permissions, and audit trail need the same rigor as a human account, if not more.
• Lead training and enablement sessions to help engineers and PMs get real value from the tools you build.
• Treat adoption as a first-class engineering problem — track measurable outcomes (tool adoption rates, time saved, reduction in manual toil) and iterate the platform based on what actually gets used, not just what gets shipped.
• Collaborate with the teams building AI-powered product features (Atrius, QSC, etc.) as a supporting/accelerating partner, without owning their product roadmap.

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

• Strong, well-rounded software engineering background — this is a generalist "platform engineer" or “DevOps” or "DevEx"-minded role, not a role for someone who identifies purely as an "AI engineer." This role is about enablement as much as it is about AI.
• Hands-on experience with agentic development — you've built and orchestrated AI agents (single or multi-agent systems), not just called an LLM API from a script.
• Experience with AI evaluation and benchmarking and prompt engineering.
• Working knowledge of AI security and governance concepts for internal tooling (e.g., prompt injection risk, guarding against cost/behavior regressions in agent pipelines).
• A track record of completing large efforts (multi-month) largely independently — this role requires figuring out what needs to be solved, not just executing a detailed task list.
• Strong judgment around platform abstractions: knowing when to build a reusable, standardized path versus when to stay flexible for a one-off need.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills — you'll regularly work with Security, IT, and non-technical stakeholders, and this is weighted as heavily in our evaluation as technical depth.
• Based in, or able to reliably commute to the Denver, CO metroarea.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience running training or enablement programs for engineering tools.
• Experience building developer/internal platforms used by multiple teams (a "golden path" or self-service mindset).
• Familiarity with agent-orchestration frameworks (e.g., Claude SDK, LangGraph, or similar).
• Experience with engineering telemetry, observability, or CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with AI-native coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) and opinions on how they fit into a real engineering workflow.

The range for this position is$120,800.00to$261,000.00 USD. Placement within this range may vary, depending on the applicant’s experience and geographic location. Acuity offers generous benefits including health care, dental coverage, vision plans, 401K benefits, and commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role.

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Accommodation in the Application Process: Acuity Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. It complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other applicable laws requiring reasonable accommodation of persons with disabilities in employment. This includes the provision of reasonable accommodation in the application process. If you believe you need reasonable accommodation to assist ...

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Nearest Major Market: Boulder
Nearest Secondary Market: Denver