# Staff Backend Engineer, Ambient AI at Athelas

- Company: Athelas
- What the company does: Athelas is the AI-driven RCM, EHR, and ambient AI platform to grow your healthcare business. Backed by General Catalyst and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.athelas.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $210K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-06
- Apply by: 2026-11-20
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Commure/2b2ad41e-8946-4c69-b3ed-abdf54ca92cc?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/athelas-staff-backend-engineer-ambient-ai/

## About the role

We’re building a next-generation ambient AI product suite for healthcare, helping clinicians focus on patient care by automatically capturing, understanding, and structuring clinical conversations. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of professional backend or infrastructure engineering experience
- Experience designing, building, and operating production distributed systems
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend programming language
- Experience with asynchronous processing, message queues, event-driven systems, or durable workflow execution
- A strong understanding of distributed-systems concepts such as idempotency, consistency, concurrency, backpressure, retries, failure isolation, and eventual completion
- Experience operating services in a cloud environment, including deployment, monitoring, scaling, and incident response

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/athelas-staff-backend-engineer-ambient-ai/