Principal AI Engineer — AI Platform for Education (Remote)

Brightwheel; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Brightwheel is building AI-enabled tools to automate workflows in early education, empowering schools, families, and staff. We are a distributed team with remote roles across US time zones and select offices.

The role combines product, engineering, and data responsibilities, owning end-to-end problems from discovery to production, with emphasis on safe, scalable AI and strong collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Own meaningful problems from discovery through launch, measurement, and iteration.

Skills

8+ years experience

AI tools & agents

retrieval & orchestration

data integration

cross-functional collaboration

systems thinking

security & privacy

React/TS frontend

Tools

Python

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

Redshift

Airflow

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Brightwheel is building AI-enabled tools to automate workflows in early education, empowering schools, families, and staff. We are a distributed team with remote roles across US time zones and select offices.

The role combines product, engineering, and data responsibilities, owning end-to-end problems from discovery to production, with emphasis on safe, scalable AI and strong collaboration across teams.