# Staff Software Engineer, AI-Native Systems at Wheel

- Company: Wheel
- What the company does: Wheel provides everything companies and clinicians need to deliver virtual care. Backed by Lightspeed and CRV.
- Company website: https://wheel.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote, USA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $186K to $265K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-09
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wheel/65a40bdd-77c2-4031-b74c-e69df77954f8
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wheel-staff-software-engineer-ai-native-systems/

## About the role

A staff-level engineer who sets technical direction for agentic systems and then leads the work to ship them. You've built and operated agents in production, you know where they break, and you have opinions — held loosely, argued well — about how to build them so they hold up in a regulated environment.

## What they're looking for

- You treat AI two ways at once — as a product capability you build with judgment, and as a development multiplier you use fluently — and you're the person who raises the org's bar on both
- 8+ years building and operating production software, with meaningful full-stack depth across a TypeScript/Node.js backend and at least one other language (Python strongly preferred)
- A track record of technical leadership as an individual contributor: owning a domain, leading multi-engineer efforts to completion, and driving decisions across team boundaries without positional authority
- Hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic systems in production — retrieval, orchestration, tool/function calling, and evaluation — with a clear-eyed view of where LLMs and agents work and where they don't
- Demonstrated ability to take a loosely defined problem and drive it to a shipped, measured, agent-powered workflow
- A working practice of using AI development tools as a force multiplier, with judgment about when to trust, verify, or override them

Tags: Research & Development