Software Engineering Intern, Athelas
Summer 2026
Estimated Hourly Rate $30.00 – $40.00 per hour
5 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
AI to grow healthcare businesses
Job no longer available
AI to grow healthcare businesses
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
Estimated Hourly Rate $30.00 – $40.00 per hour
5 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify and improve healthcare delivery through AI and automation.
Role
Who you are
- Obtain Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or related technical field by June 2027
- Solid CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, networking, concurrency) and strong debugging skills
- Proficiency in at least one of: TypeScript/Node, Python, Go
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and work across the stack as needed
- Product sense and attention to detail; empathy for end users in high-impact workflows
- A builder mindset with strong ownership, communication, and collaboration skills
Desirable
- Prior internship or project experience building production-like systems or shipping user-facing features
- 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
- Knowledge of secure API design and data modeling; understanding of monitoring/alerting/observability
- Domain exposure to healthcare (e.g., EMR/EHR integrations, HL7/FHIR, HIPAA considerations) or AI/ML/ASR
- Building and operating services in production environments
- Defining and tracking metrics; creating dashboards and alerts
- Software reliability engineering practices (graceful degradation, retries/backoff, health checks)
- Clear technical writing, thoughtful code reviews, and a habit of continuous learning and improvement
What the job involves
- We’re looking for Software Engineering Interns to join our engineering teams for Summer 2026. Interns will work on meaningful projects with mentorship from experienced engineers and gain exposure to shipping software in production at scale
- Contribute to the design, development, testing, and shipping of product features across web, mobile, or backend services
- Support core platforms and APIs that power clinical workflows and billing infrastructure for healthcare systems
- Collaborate with product, design, data/ML, and infrastructure teams to deliver customer-focused solutions
- Assist in building full‑stack solutions emphasizing usability and security
- Maintain high standards for code quality, reliability, security, and performance
- Instrument features with metrics and logging; participate in code reviews and technical documentation
- Operate services in production with a focus on observability, incident response, and continuous improvement
Our take
Today, healthcare providers are tackling the growing challenge of too much paperwork and too little time for patients. Many existing electronic health record (EHR) systems only add to the problem - digital, yes, but often too clunky, time-consuming, and disconnected from the tools doctors actually need. Athelas is tackling this by reimagining how healthcare software works, helping providers spend less time lcicking and more time caring for people.
Athelas offers a full suite of tools that combine AI-powered automation, remote patient monitoring (RPM), and integrated EHR and billing systems. And its newest platform, Athelas AIR, is a next-generation EHR designed to unify clinical and administrative workflows in one intelligent system. By embedding revenue cycle management (RCM) and ambient AI documentation directly into the platform, Athelas AIR strreamlines everything from charting to billing. And the goal is simple, to reduce administrative burden, improve margins, and ultimately, give healthcare teams a smoother, smarter way to work.
The company has made some impressive strides lately too. After achieving unicorn status in 2022 and merging with healthcare software leader Commurein 2023, Athelas is now valued at around $6B. It has also partnered with organizations like Resilient HEalthcare to power at-home care programs, bringing hospital-level technology into patients homes. And with over 100 clients lined up to adopt Athelas AIR, the company is very much positioning itself as a leader in intelligent healthcare infrastructure.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$60m
SERIES B
Aug 2021
$72m
SERIES B
Total funding: $156.4m
Company HQ
Jackson Park, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Tanay Tandon
(Co-Founder & CEO)Alongside Athelas, they are the CEO of Commure. Previously, they were a Researcher at Stanford University AI Department and MetaMind.
Deepika Bodapati
(Co-Founder & COO)Alongside Athelas, they are the COO of Commure. Prior to founding Athelas in 2016, they were a Researcher at Stanford University, Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab and NASA Ames Research Center.
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