Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Athelas
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3 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
Remote patient monitoring platform
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Remote patient monitoring platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
Athelas' mission is to bring simple, life-changing healthcare products to people around the globe to provide remote patient monitoring systems to the healthcare sector.
Role
Who you are
- 4–6+ years in software engineering and/or field/solutions/forward‑deployed roles, with a track record of owning customer‑facing deployments
- Fluency in Python and TypeScript/React; strong SQL; experience building and consuming REST/gRPC APIs
- Comfort with cloud & DevOps: containers (Docker), CI/CD, infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g., Terraform), and one major cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Integration experience (healthcare a plus): Epic/Cerner, FHIR R4, HL7 v2, SMART on FHIR, and/or X12 (270/271, 835/837); SSO/OIDC
- Practical security mindset: HIPAA concepts, PHI handling, encryption, and audit logging
- Strong product sense and bias to action—able to shape ambiguous problems, make smart tradeoffs, and ship quickly
- Executive‑caliber written and verbal communication; equally effective with engineers, clinicians, and operational leaders
- Willingness to travel up to 50% to customer sites
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent real‑world experience)
Desirable
- Hands‑on with LLM/AI systems (prompting, RAG, vector stores, evaluation) and/or speech‑to‑text and real‑time pipelines
- Domain experience in RCM, clinical documentation, intake & eligibility/benefits, or command center operations
- Observability depth: logs/metrics/tracing, performance tuning, SLO design
What the job involves
- As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Commure + Athelas, you will lead on‑site discovery, architect end‑to‑end solutions, and own production deployments for health system partners
- You’ll operate as the technical owner from problem framing through go‑live and scale, partnering directly with clinicians, operations, IT/security, and executives
- You’ll mentor other FDEs, uplevel our playbooks, and influence the product roadmap to drive measurable outcomes in patient access, affordability, and care quality
- For those interested, this role has a clear path into FDE leadership (FDE Lead → FDE Manager) as you demonstrate impact and coach others
- Own outcomes. Lead multi‑workstream engagements from scoping/SOW through production launch and adoption; define timelines, risks, and success metrics (e.g., time‑to‑note close, same‑day close rate, throughput, NPS)
- Run discovery at the bedside and in the boardroom. Shadow clinical workflows, synthesize requirements, and translate ambiguity into crisp problem statements and ROI hypotheses
- Architect & build. Design and implement integrations (FHIR/HL7/X12 APIs), data pipelines, services, and UIs; take 0→1 prototypes to hardened 1→N solutions
- Ship on‑site. Travel up to 50% to build with users, pilot rapidly, and demo to executives; iterate in days, not quarters
- Ensure security & compliance. Design with HIPAA/SOC 2 principles, least‑privilege access, and auditability in mind
- Reliability & operations. Instrument systems, define SLOs, set up monitoring/alerting, and lead incident response and root‑cause analysis
- AI & automation. Apply LLMs/NLP, speech, workflow engines, and RTLS to reduce administrative burden and unlock new capabilities
- Stakeholder management. Drive exec‑level communication, align on decisions, manage dependencies, and unblock teams
- Documentation & playbooks. Author runbooks, integration guides, and repeatable patterns to scale the practice
- Mentor & multiply. Coach junior FDEs, review designs/code, and model a culture of urgency, ownership, and craftsmanship
Our take
Gathering data on patients is vital to provide healthcare workers with the information that they need to reduce repeat hospitalizations, but retrieving such data requires patient monitoring through expensive medical equipment. This ultimately reduces spaces in hospitals and clinics when patients could otherwise be cared for from home, presenting an increased demand for remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology.
Athelas develops RPM hardware and software platforms, helping the healthcare industry monitor the health data of patients without the need for them to be present in hospitals or clinics. The company's solutions include remote devices for blood diagnostics, sensor-driven pillboxes, and glucometers, which connect through software applications for doctors, EHR integrations, and a unified RPM platform.
Whilst the company faces competition from other RPM platforms, Athelas stands out by providing a comprehensive range of hardware monitoring devices and software applications, ultimately contributing toward an all-in-one RPM ecosystem. The company reports that its solutions have resulted in a 30% increase in patient engagement and a 20% reduction in hospitalizations and ER visits. A merger with fellow healthcare infrastructure unicorn Commure in 2023 will combine both companies' fast-growing revenue lines and promise a lucrative future Athelas.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2022
$60m
SERIES B
Aug 2021
$72m
SERIES B
Total funding: $156.2m
Company HQ
Jackson Park, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Tanay Tandon
(CEO)Experience as Software Developer and Engineer for Trringg Systems, Clipped.me and Wit.ai. Researcher for the AI Department of Stanford University from 2013 to 2016.
Deepika Bodapati
(Co-founder)Experience as Researcher for the NASA Ames Research Center. Researcher at the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab (MMIL) of Stanford University from 2010 to 2015.
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