diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ec70d59..697890c 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: quarto
 Title: R Interface to 'Quarto' Markdown Publishing System
-Version: 1.4.4.9011
+Version: 1.4.4.9012
 Authors@R: c(
     person("JJ", "Allaire", , "jj@posit.co", role = "aut",
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0174-9868")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 57661bb..8fbf4c8 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # quarto (development version)
 
+- Make `quarto_render(as_job = TRUE)` wrapable (thanks, @salim-b, #105).
+
 - Quarto CLI will now correctly use the same R version than the one used to run functions in this package (#204).
 
 - Add `quarto_available()` function to check if Quarto CLI is found (thanks, @hadley, #187).
diff --git a/R/render.R b/R/render.R
index 298e42e..2054afe 100644
--- a/R/render.R
+++ b/R/render.R
@@ -120,8 +120,18 @@ quarto_render <- function(
       "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(
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-render.R b/tests/testthat/test-render.R
index eedc0fd..745ff81 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-render.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-render.R
@@ -65,3 +65,37 @@ 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
+  # This is here for manual testing. This test should not run otherwise.
+  skip_on_cran()
+  skip_if_no_quarto()
+  skip_if_not(
+    rstudioapi::isAvailable() &&
+      rstudioapi::hasFun("runScriptJob") &&
+      in_rstudio(),
+    message = "quarto_render(as_job = TRUE) is only available in RStudio IDE sessions with job support."
+  )
+  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
+    )
+  }
+  expect_message(
+    wrapper(basename(qmd), output, "native"),
+    "Rendering project as background job"
+  )
+  # wait for background job to finish (10s should be conservative enough)
+  Sys.sleep(10)
+  expect_true(file.exists(output))
+})