Principal AI Software Engineer

🕒 August 19

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $194k - $263k / year

⏰ Full Time

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brightwheel

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201 - 500 employees

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $55M Series C - Brightwheel on 2021-02

Education • SaaS • B2B

brightwheel is an all-in-one childcare and early education management platform that helps preschools, childcare centers, in-home caregivers, camps, Montessori programs and multisite operators manage billing and payments, enrollment and admissions, attendance and check-in, staff scheduling and payroll, family communication, curriculum and assessments, CACFP/health checks, and reporting via a mobile-first SaaS app used by administrators, teachers, and parents.

📋 Description

• Own meaningful problems from discovery through launch, measurement, and iteration • Use AI to improve engineering practices and product delivery • Prototype quickly, validate assumptions, and use working software to create clarity • Maintain high standards for quality, reliability, security, privacy, observability, and execution • Design and build cross-cutting AI services for retrieval, context, evaluation, and guardrails • Optimize go-to-market operational workflows and internal team effectiveness • Own the end-to-end product loop, including customer and internal-team discovery, success metrics, workflow and UX design, data and evaluation planning, and iterative releases • Create shared AI abstractions and tooling, including prompt and tool patterns, logging, monitoring, and reusable components • Shape data and system architecture so AI can connect longitudinal product, billing, support, and operations signals and recommend next actions • Mentor engineers and raise standards for AI-augmented engineering and AI-powered feature operations

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience • Strong engineering fundamentals across systems, data, APIs, product surfaces, and infrastructure • Experience owning production work from problem definition through launch and iteration • Uses AI tools and agents as part of the engineering workflow • Ability to increase engineering velocity without lowering quality • Experience automating personal, team, or company workflows • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and turning unclear problems into shipped software • Clear communication and cross-functional collaboration • Strong commitment to 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 • Experience building AI-powered systems • Experience collaborating with internal customers and creating novel solutions • Working from within the United States • Authorized to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity opportunities • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage • Generous paid parental leave • Flexible PTO • Local retirement or savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S.) • Remote work across U.S. time zones • Diverse and inclusive work environment