Athelas

Senior Software Engineer, R&D

Athelas$130K — $180K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • Professional software engineering experience in a high-growth or startup setting
  • Strong fullstack skills including Python (backend) and JavaScript/React (frontend)
  • Hands-on experience with LLM APIs and AI-powered features
  • Track record of successful production deployment from ideation
  • Strong debugging, problem-solving, and resourcefulness skills
  • Excellent communication skills, engaging effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Build infrastructure for orchestrating, evaluating, and running sub-agents
  • Work with cutting-edge technologies like LLM tool calls and browser agents
  • Lead the end-to-end process from research to production of new technology
  • Establish code quality, testing, deployment, and observability best practices
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop user-friendly solutions
  • Contribute to a fast-paced team that values ambition and quick decision-making

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model based in Mountain View, CA
  • Opportunity to work with emerging technologies in healthcare
  • Fast-moving team culture that celebrates innovation and collaboration
  • Potential for involvement in impactful projects with significant real-world applications
  • Engagement with diverse teams, including clinical experts and product managers
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for our R&D team at Commure, the team taking emerging technology from inception to impact. We scout new capabilities - a frontier LLM that can chain tool calls, browser agents that can navigate the web, new agent harnesses that can self improve - and figure out how to productionize them for healthcare. Our job is the full arc: research the technology, productize it, deliver it to customers, and own it as a P&L until it graduates.

Graduation has taken the following shapes in the past:
  • Embedded into an existing product - e.g., the AI Copilot in our practice management suite.
  • Becomes its own product - e.g., Air, the EHR.
  • Becomes an internal RCM workflow that saves the company millions annually - e.g., EOB web agents and appeal agents.

This role will be hybrid and based in our Mountain View, CA headquarters.

What You'll Do
  • Build the infrastructure that orchestrates, evaluates, and runs sub-agents, including the channel adapters that intelligence flows through
  • Get hands-on with the cutting edge - chaining tool calls across LLMs, deploying browser agents, building self-improving harnesses - and turn experimental prototypes into production-level tools and products
  • Take a technology from first principles to production: research it, build it into a product, ship it to customers, and own it through graduation to something bigger
  • Establish best practices for code quality, testing, deployment, and observability
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and clinical experts to ship intuitive solutions that work in real clinical environments
  • Be part of a fast-moving team that celebrates large ambition, ships daily, and makes decisions quickly


What You Have
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience, required
  • Professional software engineering experience, ideally in a high-growth or startup environment
  • Strong fullstack skills - Python on the backend (required), Javascript/React on the frontend, with working knowledge of containers and cloud (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Hands-on experience integrating LLM APIs or building AI-powered features in production
  • Track record of driving work from early ideation to successful production deployment
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills with a history of demonstrated resourcefulness
  • Strong communication skills - comfortable working with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders including clinical teams
  • Experience in fast-moving environments where shipping quickly is the norm

About Athelas

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2016

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