Sr AI Engineer - Data

MeridianLink is a company that builds tools to help credit unions support their members at critical financial moments. The Sr AI Engineer will be responsible for owning data-heavy features, improving data models, and ensuring the reliability of production systems while leveraging AI coding tools.

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. Experience with Terraform, AWS CDK, or similar tools transfers well. You may also touch React 19 and React Router 7 when work crosses into the product
• Monitor production, investigate issues, and fix root causes
• Help the team make clear, practical technical decisions

Requirements:

• 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