Staff Software Engineer - AI Products

Position Summary This role is the technical lead for MeridianLink’s customer-facing AI product engineering. The Staff Software Engineer - AI Products sits on our AI Products team and owns the architecture and delivery of intelligent features going directly into the hands of credit union clients. This is the first generation of AI-native products at MeridianLink, and this engineer sets the technical bar for how those products are built: from feature architecture and LLM integration patterns to evaluation quality and production reliability. They partner closely with the AI Platform team to leverage foundational infrastructure and with Product Management to translate business intent into well-designed AI features. Key Competencies What it means to be a Staff Engineer at MeridianLink Staff engineers operate across multiple teams or an entire product line. They set technical direction, make architecture and technology decisions that others build against, and raise the engineering floor across the teams they touch. Staff engineers at MeridianLink are active, daily users of AI-assisted development tools -- and go further by building the workflows, tooling, and patterns that make those tools more effective for the teams around them. Technical Leadership & Architecture - Makes critical architecture and design decisions that span multiple teams or an entire product area - Evaluates tech...