Staff AI Engineer, Data & Intelligence (Remote Canada)

Acquia; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Acquia seeks a Staff AI Engineer to join the Data & Intelligence function, building retrieval, graph, and inference layers on the data platform. You will ship production AI systems and elevate the AI engineering capabilities across teams.

The role spans observability, core data platform, and insights, requiring adaptability to changing priorities. You will work hands-on across Python, SQL, dbt, Iceberg lakehouse, and model providers while mentoring others through impactful work.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering, including 3+ years shipping AI or ML systems to production.
• Strong programming fundamentals and Python proficiency.
• Fluency working with data at scale — advanced SQL, dbt, distributed query engines.

Responsibilities

• Write and ship production AI code daily; actively contribute.
• Develop retrieval, context engineering, and knowledge graph solutions for fast customer context retrieval.
• Build inference and signal layers reading from lakehouse storage and exposing signals via contracts.

Skills

AI/ML systems

Python

SQL

Data at scale

Observability

Communication

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

dbt

Iceberg lakehouse

Temporal

LangGraph

OpenTelemetry

AWS

Job description

Acquia seeks a Staff AI Engineer to join the Data & Intelligence function, building retrieval, graph, and inference layers on the data platform. You will ship production AI systems and elevate the AI engineering capabilities across teams.

The role spans observability, core data platform, and insights, requiring adaptability to changing priorities. You will work hands-on across Python, SQL, dbt, Iceberg lakehouse, and model providers while mentoring others through impactful work.