Athelas

Software Engineer, Voice Agents

Athelas • $110K — $130K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-4 years of backend software experience, primarily in Python.
  • Experience delivering production services, APIs, and data models.
  • Understanding of automated assistant interactions via voice and text.
  • Familiarity with async, event-driven, or real-time systems.
  • Solid grounding in testing, LLM evaluation, observability, and reliability principles.
  • Patient-centric design mindset for user experience optimization.
  • Proactive and ownership-oriented approach to problem-solving.

Responsibilities

  • Build backend services in Python for real-time voice agents.
  • Develop low-latency pipelines for telephony and conversational processes.
  • Integrate various healthcare systems for scheduling and intake functions.
  • Collaborate with senior engineers on API and data model design.
  • Work with AI, product, and operations teams to deliver functional features.
  • Ensure high standards of quality including latency, reliability, and observability.
  • Take responsibility for release readiness of software features.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI technology in healthcare.
  • Join a small, agile team with a high shipping frequency.
  • Possibility for career growth and tackling more complex challenges.
  • Hands-on experience with real-time systems in a dynamic environment.
  • Engagement in mission-driven work that improves patient access.
Full Job Description
About the Role

Health system call centers can't keep up with patient demand. 85% of patients who can't get through never call back. They go elsewhere, and appointments that should have been booked never are.

We're building AI Voice Agents that pick up every call and handle the full conversation: scheduling, rescheduling, cancellations, confirmations, FAQs, and intake. They work by integrating directly with the EHR and telephony stack in real time.

We're hiring a Software Engineer to build the systems these agents run on: the voice pipelines, EHR integrations, and services that take a call from "hello" to a booked appointment. It's a mid-level role on a small team that ships every day, with a lot of room to grow into harder problems.

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

What You'll Do
  • Build backend services in Python that power real-time voice agents: call orchestration, conversation state, tool execution, and EHR write-back.
  • Contribute to low-latency pipelines connecting telephony, ASR, LLMs, and TTS into a single conversational loop.
  • Integrate with healthcare systems (like Epic, Cerner, athena, and others) for scheduling, eligibility, and intake.
  • Collaborate with senior engineers to design APIs, data models, and event-driven workflows.
  • Partner with AI, product, and operations to ship features patient access teams actually use.
  • Own the quality of what you ship: latency, reliability, observability, and release readiness.


What You Have
  • 2-4 years of backend software experience, primarily in Python.
  • Experience shipping production services, APIs, and data models.
  • An intuition for how people interact with automated assistants through voice and text, where the rules are different than icons and buttons.
  • Comfort with async, event-driven, or real-time systems (or excitement to grow into them).
  • Strong fundamentals in testing, LLM evaluation, observability, and reliability.
  • A patient centered mindset. You design for the person on the other end of the line, not just the metrics.
  • Bias for action and an ownership mindset.


Please be aware that all official communication from us will come exclusively from email addresses ending in @commure.com. Any emails from other domains are not affiliated with our organization.

Employees will act in accordance with the organization's information security policies, to include but not limited to protecting assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference nor execute particular security processes or activities. Employees will report to the information security office any confirmed or potential events or other risks to the organization. Employees will be required to attest to these requirements upon hire and on an annual basis.

About Athelas

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2016

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