AI Engineer II ( AI Platform)

This AI Engineer II is a mid-level engineering role responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining AI platform components that enable MeridianLink's products to deliver AI-powered features consistently and reliably. You will work within the AI platform team to implement services such as model integration layers, retrieval-augmented generation infrastructure, prompt management systems, and evaluation pipelines. This role collaborates closely with Senior and Staff engineers on architecture, works directly with product engineering teams to understand their AI integration needs, and helps establish the standards and patterns teams follow when building on top of the AI platform. WHAT YOU'LL DO Core Platform Development - Implement AI platform components — including model serving layers, retrieval infrastructure, prompt management, and output evaluation services — under the guidance of Senior and Staff engineers - Develop and maintain APIs that product teams use to integrate AI capabilities into their applications - Build observability and monitoring into platform services to track output quality, latency, cost, and system health - Contribute to design discussions and provide input on trade-offs between simplicity, reliability, and scalability Integration & Collaboration - Work with product engineering teams to understand how they want to use AI capabilities and translate requirements into platform features - Participate in technical design sessions and code reviews with product teams building on the AI platform - Help identify patterns where multiple product teams are solving the same AI integration problem and consolidate that work Standards, Documentation & Knowledge Sharing - Contribute to documentation, reference implementations, and runbooks that help product teams adopt AI platform services - Participate in defining and enforcing integration standards — API contracts, error handling patterns, cost attribution - Mentor junior engineers (Engineer I)