Software Engineering Intern, Athelas
Summer 2027
Estimated Hourly Rate: $40 – $60 per hour
Office located in Mountain View, CA
AI to grow healthcare businesses
Be an early applicant
AI to grow healthcare businesses
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
Estimated Hourly Rate: $40 – $60 per hour
Office located in Mountain View, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify and improve healthcare delivery through AI and automation.
Role
Who you are
- Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
- Expected graduation in 2028
- Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms
- Experience with Python, TypeScript, Dart, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React, and native mobile platforms
- Exposure to PostgreSQL, Redis, cloud object storage, Kubernetes, containers, distributed queues, and data processing pipelines
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Excitement about building products that solve real-world problems
Desirable
- Previous software engineering internship or research experience
- Personal, academic, or open-source projects
- Experience building and shipping software used by others
- Interest in AI/ML or healthcare technology
- A track record of taking initiative and owning projects from start to finish
What the job involves
- We're looking for Software Engineering Interns for Summer 2027 who want to work on real problems, learn from exceptional engineers, and ship software that reaches real users. Intern projects will vary by team, but examples could include:
- AI & Agents: Build an AI-powered workflow that helps healthcare teams automate repetitive administrative work
- Clinical: Develop features that help clinicians spend less time documenting and more time with patients
- Revenue Cycle Management: Build software that helps healthcare practices automate billing workflows and improve their financial operations
- Platform & Infrastructure: Improve the reliability, observability, or scalability of services supporting thousands of healthcare organizations
- Product Engineering: Build end-to-end features across React, APIs, backend services, and databases that are used by healthcare providers every day
- Design, build, test, and ship features across frontend, backend, mobile, or infrastructure
- Build APIs and services that power clinical and administrative workflows
- Develop AI-powered experiences using LLMs and machine learning technologies
- Build intuitive user experiences for clinicians, administrators, and patients
- Work with healthcare data and integrations across complex systems
- Improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of production services
- Instrument your work with metrics, logging, and monitoring
- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and debugging
- Collaborate closely with product, design, data/ML, infrastructure, and clinical teams
- Learn how software moves from an idea → to code → to production → to real-world impact
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 streamlines 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 significant strides in recent years. After reaching unicorn status in 2022 and merging with Commure in 2023, Athelas is now valued at around $6B and continues to expand its platform. Alongside growing adoption of Athelas AIR, the company has recently secured FDA clearance for its Athelas Home device - an AI-powered diagnostic tool that delivers lab-grade blood test results from a fingerstick in minutes. This allows care teams to test, diagnose, and make decisions in a single visit. With a growing customer base and a broader push into AI-driven diagnostics as well as software, Athelas is ready to be a leader in end-to-end, 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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