brightwheel · 3 weeks ago
Sr. Engineer, Go To Market AI
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$133K/yr - $189K/yr
2+ years expBrightwheel is a company focused on providing high quality early education for every child. The Senior Engineer, Go To Market AI role involves designing and shipping AI-powered systems to support growth in early education, ultimately helping preschools and childcare centers thrive.
EducationPrimary EducationSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Work directly with internal customers across Sales, Marketing, Support, and Customer Success to turn ambiguous growth and workflow pain into clear product opportunities, shaping solutions that balance technical feasibility with measurable business impact
Build AI agents and workflows that spot which preschools and childcare centers need help, generate the right message, and guide them from first contact to full, stable use of brightwheel
Ship beautiful and functional user experiences that make our teams better
Create tools for support and success that resolve issues faster and turn every interaction into a chance to help small businesses run better
Instrument what you ship, track metrics like enrollment growth, time saved, and account health, and iterate based on real results
Shape our data and system architecture so AI can stitch together longitudinal signals and recommend what should happen next, not just report what happened
Lead by example in AI-augmented engineering, using AI to multiply your own speed and sharing patterns that raise the bar for the whole team
Qualification
Required
2+ years of professional software engineering experience, with clear ownership of medium-to-large production systems from problem statement and design doc through launch and iteration
A proven track record of shipping AI-powered products to production, with concrete examples where LLMs meaningfully improved a metric like conversion, retention, productivity, or revenue
Hands-on experience with large language models (LLMs) in real applications, including prompt and tool design, retrieval-style patterns (such as RAG), and evaluation and monitoring in production
Strong computer science fundamentals (e.g., data structures, algorithms, and systems design) and a generalist mindset, comfortable moving between backend, data, and UX to get the job done
Backend engineering skills in at least one modern web stack (such as Ruby on Rails, Python, Go, or Node), plus confidence with relational databases and larger datasets, from data modeling to performant queries and analytics
Experience building modern web front-ends, ideally with React or a similar component-based framework
Preferred
A portfolio of personal AI projects, open-source work, or writing that shows how you think about applied AI in real-world settings
Formal training in computer science (4-year CS degree or equivalent depth in core CS topics)
Background in vertical SaaS, ecommerce, or other operations-heavy domains
Experience with autonomous agent frameworks or workflow automation platforms
A track record of raising the bar for quality and operations: writing secure, testable, maintainable code; automating and simplifying dev/test/ops workflows; writing and reviewing design docs; mentoring less experienced engineers; and contributing to hiring through interviews and feedback
Company
brightwheel
Brightwheel is a software platform for preschools and childcare providers.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (4)
2024 (3)
2023 (2)
2022 (1)
2021 (4)
2020 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$88.8MKey Investors
AdditionBessemer Venture PartnersNewSchools Venture Fund
2021-02-03Series C· $55M
2020-12-14Series Unknown
2018-10-02Series B· $21M
Leadership Team
Dave Vasen
Founder & CEO
Josh Gartland
CFO
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