Athelas is a Sequoia funded healthtech startup working on developing cutting-edge technology to simplify every step in the delivery of healthcare. If you're interested in modernizing healthcare and working at the intersection of machine learning and healthcare, we are the right place for you.

Athelas is a hard-working and ambitious team and we're looking for individuals with a founder-type mentality to join us.

About the Role

At Commure + Athelas, our Ambient AI team builds an AI Platform that turns real-time clinical conversations and clinical context into documentation and actionable insights for providers across the largest healthcare systems in the country. We’re looking for talented New Grad Software Engineers who love shipping quickly, obsess over user experience, and want to work on transforming healthcare.

This full-time position requires working 5 days a week in our Mountain View, CA office.

What You’ll Do

• Contribute to the most advanced ambient scribe platform used by clinicians nationwide
• Design and build end-to-end features, enhancing our existing systems to add new functionality.
• Architect and deliver full‑stack solutions emphasizing usability and security
• Maintain high standards for code quality, reliability, security, and performance
• Work with real-time audio capture, ASR, and LLM pipelines (prompting, structured outputs, post-processing)
• Collaborate across cross-functional product teams, working closely with product, design, ML and infrastructure to ship features to our customers.
• Be part of a tremendously fast-paced team that celebrates fast execution and clear decisions
• Work across the entire software stack with strong ownership and measurable outcomes

What You Have

• Solid CS fundamentals (data structures, networking, concurrency) and ability to debug across the stack
• Proficiency in at least one of: TypeScript/Node, Python, Go
• Product sense and empathy for clinicians; attention to detail on UX and correctness in high-impact workflows
• Excitement to work in a high-impact field with a builder attitude and bias for action

[Preferred]

• Exposure to LLMs (prompt orchestration, JSON-structured outputs, evals) or ASR/audio streaming
• Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React) or mobile frameworks (iOS/Android)
• Exposure to cloud and container technologies (e.g., AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD
• Experience (projects/internships) in ship-fast environments; comfort with CI/CD and feature flags
• General understanding of Containers and Cloud (Docker, Kubernetes; GCP/AWS)
• Security & compliance awareness (HIPAA/PHI, least-privilege, auditability), SSO/SCIM
• EMR/healthcare interfaces (HL7/FHIR) and external API design (idempotency, retries, pagination)

Experience areas we value (any subset):

• Building and operating production environments
• Alerting and reporting (PagerDuty, logging, tracing)
• Metrics tracking and dashboards (Grafana/Prometheus)
• Software Reliability Engineering concepts (circuit breakers, backoff, health checks)
• Strong communication, great product sense, and leadership potential; extremely motivated to grow

• Ambient AI - AI technology to draft high quality medical notes
• Agents - Intelligent assistants that automate complex tasks
• Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) - Financial operating system for health practices and health systems
• Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) - FDA cleared devices and sensors to manage patients remotely
• Engage - Digital patient care journeys
• Patientkeeper - Maximize patient time with provider-friendly workflows
• Strongline - Duress solution designed to reduce violence in healthcare and increase safety
• CoLab - Co-develop with health systems to deliver solutions that work

Frontend: Javascript, React, Typescript, Flutter Backend: Python, Flask, FastAPI Cloud: GCP, AWS Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres