Senior AI Platform Engineer – Enablement & CI/CD

Silversmith Capital Partners; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

MeridianLink is seeking a Senior Engineer on the Engineering Enablement team to own and advance the shared CI/CD infrastructure, AI development tooling, and sandbox environments used by hundreds of R&D engineers. You will drive adoption of the AI-native development program, build harnesses and agent infrastructure, and ship real, production-ready features.

This is a hands-on role with real code and infrastructure, partnering with engineering teams to accelerate delivery and improve reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering delivering features and infrastructure in production.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD systems at org scale (GitLab CI and/or Jenkins).
• Experience building developer-facing tooling or platform services relied on by engineers.
• Hands-on experience with LLM developer tooling: MCP, LLM APIs, agent orchestration, or AI harnesses.
• Proficiency in Python or TypeScript with production-grade ownership.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes and Helm at production scale on AWS or Azure.
• Experience designing shared pipeline abstractions and CI/CD infrastructure used by multiple teams.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi).
• 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 experience.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve CI/CD and AI tooling platforms end-to-end across multiple teams.
• Identify edge cases and failure modes within assigned scope.
• Participate in code reviews with constructive feedback and early blockers surfaced.
• Design pipeline abstractions that balance standardization with flexibility at scale.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to documentation and onboarding.

Skills

CI/CD Systems

Python

Kubernetes

LLM Tooling

Developer Infra

Code Reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Terraform

Pulumi

Docker

Job description

MeridianLink is seeking a Senior Engineer on the Engineering Enablement team to own and advance the shared CI/CD infrastructure, AI development tooling, and sandbox environments used by hundreds of R&D engineers. You will drive adoption of the AI-native development program, build harnesses and agent infrastructure, and ship real, production-ready features.

This is a hands-on role with real code and infrastructure, partnering with engineering teams to accelerate delivery and improve reliability.