# Senior AI Engineer at ACQ Ventures

- Company: ACQ Ventures
- What the company does: ACQ Ventures is a strategic venture capital fund empowering early-stage startups with funding, expert advice, and a robust network to accelerate growth.
- Company website: https://ventures.acquisition.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote, USA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $170K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/acquisition/9789dd49-c6bd-4672-8cd3-9f67f2dea7c1
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/acq-ventures-senior-ai-engineer/

## About the role

Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI agents and end-to-end agentic workflows that solve real business problems across ACQ Vantage Integrate LLMs with internal systems, APIs, and data sources, ensuring reliability, performance, and clean abstractions

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years shipping production software systems (distributed backends, APIs, deployment pipelines, monitoring)
- 2+ years building production RAG systems using vector databases (Pinecone, Qdrant, FAISS, or Weaviate), including embedding strategies, index management, and retrieval tuning
- Built and deployed AI agents or multi-step LLM workflows in production, including tool use, orchestration, and system integrations
- Built or contributed to an evaluation framework for an LLM-based product (retrieval quality measurement, regression detection, model-switching decisions based on data)
- Reduced LLM API costs in production through model routing, caching, token management, or architectural improvements
- Worked across multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, or equivalent) and understands tradeoffs in prompt behavior, token economics, and failure modes

Tags: Technology