AI Platform Engineer — Trust & Explainability

MeridianLink, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

MeridianLink, Inc. is seeking an AI Engineer for the Trust & Explainability domain within the AI Platform.

You will build tracing, evaluation, and explanation capabilities across a multi-agent workflow, integrating open‑source observability frameworks and ensuring safety for regulated lending contexts. You will work on end-to-end tracing of agent actions, surface readable explanations, and collaborate with Security Operations to align threat models with platform guarantees.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering features in production
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and software design fundamentals
• Proficiency with Git, Docker, automated testing, and modern scripting languages
• Active daily use of AI-assisted development tools
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
• Hands-on experience building software that integrates LLMs in production or open-source projects

Responsibilities

• Build tracing across the platform's gateway, orchestration, memory, and tools
• Link actions across multiple agents in a multi-agent workflow
• Create developer-facing trace views for readability by non-writers
• Develop explanation layers describing why an agent did what it did
• Collaborate with product engineers to surface explanations for end users
• Evaluate and integrate open-source observability and evaluation frameworks
• Develop evaluation tooling including golden datasets, test runners, and regression reporting
• Perform red-team and adversarial testing to ensure safety and tenant isolation

Skills

Python

LLM observability

Distributed tracing

AI/ML systems

Code testing

Docker

Git

Open-source frameworks

AI-assisted development tools

Python production experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Langfuse

Arize Phoenix

LangSmith

Braintrust

DL/ML tooling

AWS

Azure

Job description

MeridianLink, Inc. is seeking an AI Engineer for the Trust & Explainability domain within the AI Platform.

You will build tracing, evaluation, and explanation capabilities across a multi-agent workflow, integrating open‑source observability frameworks and ensuring safety for regulated lending contexts. You will work on end-to-end tracing of agent actions, surface readable explanations, and collaborate with Security Operations to align threat models with platform guarantees.