diff --git a/R/render.R b/R/render.R
index 8997fcb..15b58b8 100644
--- a/R/render.R
+++ b/R/render.R
@@ -107,8 +107,18 @@ quarto_render <- function(input = NULL,
   if (as_job && rstudioapi::isAvailable()) {
     message("Rendering project as background job (use as_job = FALSE to override)")
     script <- tempfile(fileext = ".R")
+    render_args <- as.list(sys.call()[-1L])
+    render_args <- mapply(
+      function(arg, arg_name) paste0(
+        arg_name,
+        "="[nchar(arg_name) > 0L],
+        deparse1(eval(arg, envir = parent.frame(n = 3L)))
+      ),
+      render_args,
+      names(render_args)
+    )
     writeLines(
-      c("library(quarto)", deparse(sys.call())),
+      paste0("quarto::quarto_render(", paste0(render_args, collapse = ", "), ")"),
       script
     )
     rstudioapi::jobRunScript(
@@ -120,7 +130,6 @@ quarto_render <- function(input = NULL,
     return(invisible(NULL))
   }
 
-
   # build args
   args <- c("render", input)
   if (!missing(output_format)) {
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-render.R b/tests/testthat/test-render.R
index 82f0d16..21b823f 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-render.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-render.R
@@ -59,3 +59,28 @@ test_that("quarto_args in quarto_render", {
     transform = transform_quarto_cli_in_output(full_path = TRUE)
   )
 })
+
+test_that("`quarto_render(as_job = TRUE)` is wrapable", {
+  # this tests background jobs, a feature only available in interactive RStudio IDE sesssions
+  skip_on_cran()
+  skip_if_no_quarto()
+  skip_if_not(rstudioapi::isAvailable())
+  qmd <- local_qmd_file(c("content"))
+  withr::local_dir(dirname(qmd))
+  output <- basename(
+    withr::local_file(xfun::with_ext(qmd, ".native"))
+  )
+  wrapper <- function(path, out, format) {
+    quarto_render(
+      input = path,
+      output_file = out,
+      output_format = format,
+      quiet = TRUE,
+      as_job = TRUE
+    )
+  }
+  wrapper(basename(qmd), output, "native")
+  # wait for background job to finish (10s should be conservative enough)
+  Sys.sleep(10)
+  expect_true(file.exists(output))
+})