# Systems Engineer, Wizard Headless at Wizard

- Company: Wizard
- What the company does: Wizard is the first AI-native shopping agent delivering the smartest and fastest shopping experience, from conversational search to universal checkout. Backed by Accel and NEA.
- Company website: https://wizard.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-04
- Apply by: 2026-12-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wizard/33dc39ff-419b-4f70-a5de-f4cf68f8a34d?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wizard-systems-engineer-wizard-headless/

## About the role

You'll work with Sam Mills, our Founding Video Engine Lead, in our native C++ codebase. You'll separate the runtime from the UI, build the CLI that renders and edits projects with no interface at all, and design the hosted render and edit API that WizReview and future apps call. You'll work closely with our media pipeline, color, audio, and AI leads. Pull the core runtime out of the app: project state, commands, history, playback, and rendering. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Systems languages: production C++ (and comfort in Rust or similar), shipped in performance-sensitive native software
- GPU pipelines: you've built or optimized rendering, compute, or media processing on the GPU
- API design: you've designed interfaces other teams and outside developers depended on
- Deep software fundamentals: memory management, concurrency, data structures, and system design. You can defend the engineering decisions you make
- AI-assisted engineering: deep experience using AI coding tools to build and ship software

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wizard-systems-engineer-wizard-headless/