Sr AI Engineer - Data
Company websitemeridianlink.com (MeridianLink, opens in new tab)
Base salary $126,000 to $214,900
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in United States
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- LocationUnited States
- WorkplaceRemote
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (2 h ago) · observed since
About this job
Build financial products that help credit union members move forward.
MeridianLink recently expanded its digital lending platform through the acquisition of Credit Mountain, an AI-native financial wellness platform that helps financial institutions empower consumers through personalized credit education, digital financial coaching, and progress tracking.
Credit Mountain’s capabilities are now part of MeridianLink Pathway and MeridianLink Coach, creating a connected experience designed to help financial institutions turn loan declines into future lending opportunities. Together, these solutions help borrowers better understand where they stand today, identify actionable next steps, and return as stronger applicants in the future.
Build the data foundation behind financial products used by credit unions and their members.
Meridianlink Coach builds tools that help credit unions support members at important moments in their financial lives. We turn complex credit information into clear, useful next steps. Because our products handle sensitive financial data, we move quickly without compromising safety or trust.
How we work
AI agents are part of our engineering workflow, not an experiment. They handle meaningful implementation work; engineers set direction, review the output, and own what ships. You will use our agents, improve them, and help build what comes next.
What you'll do
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.
What you bring
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.
If you enjoy turning complex data problems into simple, dependable systems - and want to help define AI-native engineering - we'd love to hear from you.
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Pay in context
This role's base floor ($126,000) is above 16% of the 3,634 Data & ML roles nationwide listed on this site; 15 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $169,279; the middle half runs from $137,281 to $200,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 7, 2026.
This listingSr AI Engineer - Data$126,000 to $214,900
Sr AI Engineer - Product$126,000 to $214,900
Senior Database Engineer$114,593 to $195,400
Sr. Product Manager - Mortgage Lending Technology$114,593 to $195,400
Sr. Software Engineer$104,148 to $177,600
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer$104,148 to $162,800
AI Engineer II – Trust & Explainability (AI Platform)$104,148 to $177,600
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Sr AI Engineer - Data (this listing) | $126,000 - $214,900 |
| Sr AI Engineer - Product | $126,000 - $214,900 |
| Senior Database Engineer | $114,593 - $195,400 |
| Sr. Product Manager - Mortgage Lending Technology | $114,593 - $195,400 |
| Sr. Software Engineer | $104,148 - $177,600 |
| Sr. Site Reliability Engineer | $104,148 - $162,800 |
| AI Engineer II – Trust & Explainability (AI Platform) | $104,148 - $177,600 |
Observed changes
- First observed on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-08-07
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: US Remote
USD 126,000 – 214,900 · 1 YEAR · Salary
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