Senior Software Engineer, Air AI
About the role
Senior Software Engineer on the Air AI team at Commure/Athelas, building the intelligence layer inside clinical workflows to document, reason, and act within real-time care delivery, with a focus on AI-powered healthcare features and an extensible AI Skills Library.
Responsibilities
- Leverage and build on top of AI/LLM technologies to accelerate product development and deliver intelligent, automated experiences to clinicians and patients
- Design and influence decisions that shape our fullstack architecture for scalable, AI-powered healthcare solutions
- Lead or contribute to technical planning for new features, balancing feasibility, clinical usability, and business impact
- Establish best practices for code quality, testing, deployment, and observability
- Mentor engineers across the team, raising the bar on design patterns, code standards, and technical thinking
- 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
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, required
- Professional software engineering experience, ideally in a high-growth or startup environment
- Strong fullstack skills — Python on the backend (required), TypeScript/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
Skills
Benefits
- Equity and competitive compensation (implied by startup environment)
About Athelas
Extensible, Integrated Technology that Simplifies Health Systems
At Athelas, powered by Commure, our mission is to simplify healthcare. We have bold ambitions to reimagine the healthcare experience, setting a new standard for how care is delivered and experienced across the industry. Our growing suite of AI solutions spans ambient AI clinical documentation, provider copilots, autonomous coding, revenue cycle management and more — all designed for providers & administrators to focus on what matters most: providing care. Healthcare is a $4.5 trillion industry with more than $500 billion spent annually on administrative costs, and Athelas is at the heart of transforming it. We power over 500,000 clinicians across hundreds of care sites nationwide – more than $10 billion flows through our systems and we support over 100 million patient interactions. With new product launches on the horizon, expansion into additional care segments, and a bold vision to tackle healthcare's most pressing challenges, our ambition is to move from upstart innovator to the industry standard over the next few years. Healthcare's moment for AI-powered transformation is here, and we're building the technology to power it. Come join us in shaping the future of healthcare.
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