Staff Software Engineer ( AI )

📋 Description

• • As a Staff Software Engineer (AI) at MeridianLink, you will serve as a senior individual contributor and one of the highest-ranking technical voices in the engineering organization, shaping the AI platform strategy and building foundational infrastructure to power customer-facing AI capabilities across credit union software product lines.
• • Day to day, you will own the technical direction for AI platform systems, architect scalable AI systems with security and compliance at the core, contribute to backend development in Python and RESTful APIs, participate in full-stack delivery using React/TypeScript/Vite when needed, build and maintain tooling and SDKs for product teams, implement LLM integrations with context management and prompt templating, establish observability and performance tracking, and mentor L3–L4 engineers through code reviews and design sessions.
• • You will be part of the Platform Services team, working within a sub-team responsible for building and scaling MeridianLink’s first generation of customer-facing AI capabilities, closely partnering with application engineering, cloud infrastructure, and applied AI to create technological foundations for intelligent features delivered to credit union clients.
• • In this role, you will establish yourself as a trusted architectural leader, drive cross-team architecture reviews and engineering best practices, raise the bar for AI platform capability and quality across the organization, and gain increasing ownership over model infrastructure, evaluation harnesses, and data pipelines as the AI platform evolves from third-party LLM integrations toward custom model development in a regulated financial environment.