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[Remote] Sr AI Engineer - Data

Remote Full-time Now Hiring

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MeridianLink is a company focused on building financial products for credit unions and their members. The Sr AI Engineer will be responsible for developing data-heavy features, improving data models, and ensuring the reliability of financial data systems.

Responsibilities

  • Own data-heavy features from design through production, planning pragmatic solutions for rising traffic and data volume
  • Improve data models, pipelines, migrations, and multi-tenant systems
  • Work in our TypeScript monorepo with Hono, Drizzle/Postgres, and AWS infrastructure managed with SST/Pulumi across Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, and S3
  • Monitor production, investigate issues, and fix root causes
  • Help the team make clear, practical technical decisions

Skills

  • 5+ years building, scaling, and running production software
  • Strong backend engineering skills in a typed language, including experience integrating third-party and public APIs such as OpenAI or Anthropic Claude
  • Experience with relational data modeling, migrations, and production data systems
  • Sound judgment when working with sensitive data and high-impact changes
  • Current, hands-on experience using AI coding tools and reviewing their output
  • Clear written communication, product sense, and comfort owning work end to end
  • Experience with TypeScript, Postgres, serverless AWS, or event-driven systems is useful; exact framework overlap is not required

Company Overview

  • MeridianLink is a digital lending platform that helps financial institutions through a configurable platform. It was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.meridianlink.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • MeridianLink has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 14 in 2025, 5 in 2024, 1 in 2023, 12 in 2022, 11 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.