Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Brightwheel is the largest, fastest growing, and most loved platform in early education, trusted by millions of educators and families every day. They are seeking a Senior AI Software Engineer to build customer-facing product experiences that enhance the early education platform by leveraging AI to improve workflows and decision-making.
Responsibilities
Own meaningful problems from discovery through launch, measurement, and iteration
Use AI to improve both how you build and what brightwheel can deliver
Prototype quickly, validate assumptions, and use working software to create clarity
Raise the bar for quality, reliability, security, privacy, observability, and execution
Build customer-facing workflows across enrollment, billing, classrooms, staffing, family communication, onboarding, or other core product areas
Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to turn ambiguous customer problems into shipped software with measurable impact
Skills
Have 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
Have strong engineering fundamentals and can reason across systems, data, APIs, product surfaces, and infrastructure
Have owned production work from problem definition through launch and iteration
Use AI tools and agents as a real part of your engineering workflow, not as a novelty
Can explain how you have increased your own velocity without lowering your quality bar
Have examples of automating your own work, your team's work, or broader company workflows
Are comfortable operating in ambiguity and turning unclear problems into shipped software
Communicate clearly and work well across functions
Care deeply about privacy, security, reliability, and customer trust
Experience shipping AI-powered products, workflows, or internal tools to production
Experience with retrieval, tool use, evaluation, monitoring, orchestration, or agent workflows
Experience in vertical SaaS, education, fintech, healthcare, CRM, ecommerce, or another operations-heavy domain
A portfolio of personal projects, internal tools, open-source work, writing, demos, or side projects that shows builder energy and taste
Experience building customer-facing product experiences with measurable adoption or outcome impact
Experience improving web or mobile outcomes through architecture, tooling, shared patterns, or production feedback
Benefits
Offers Equity
REMOTE
Brightwheel is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Company Overview
Brightwheel is a software platform for preschools and childcare providers. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is
Company H1B Sponsorship
brightwheel has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 4 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 1 in 2022, 4 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.