About Hesta Health

Hesta is rebuilding healthcare for women.

Women spend 25% more of their lives in poor health than men do. Every year, 75 million years of women’s lives are lost due to poor health or early death. This gap limits potential, drives inequality, and reflects a healthcare system that was never designed with women in mind.

Hesta exists to change that.

We’re building a new kind of women’s health service: clinically rigorous, deeply human, and powered by thoughtful technology. We’re starting with pregnancy and the two years after birth - one of the most important and most neglected periods in a woman’s life - and reimagining what great care should look like.

We’re a small, early-stage team combining clinical excellence and obsessive care for our users with strong product and engineering craft. We care deeply about doing things properly, even when that’s harder.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a high-potential Engineering Intern to join our early team on a fixed-term basis, with the possibility of moving into a permanent role if it’s a strong mutual fit.

This role is ideal for a student or recent graduate who wants real responsibility early on.  We’re looking for someone who is excited to build, learn fast, and take ownership in a small, lean team.

You’ll work closely with our founders and engineers on real product and technical challenges, from early experiments through to production features. You’ll be supported and mentored, but you’ll also be trusted to think critically, act pragmatically, and take responsibility for your work.

For the right person, this internship can be either a stepping stone into an early-career engineering role at Hesta, or deep experience to open doors into a great role elsewhere.

This role is particularly suited to someone excited by the emergence of agent-based AI systems and interested in applying them pragmatically to real operational and clinical workflows.

What You’ll Do

• Build and ship small but meaningful pieces of our product, with increasing ownership over time

• Work on exploratory projects such as internal tools, lightweight automation, and early AI-enabled features using modern LLMs and agent-based workflows

• Translate user research and clinical insights into practical technical tasks and experiments

• Support technical investigations, prototype tools, and build scrappy but useful internal systems that improve team operations and inform product decisions

• Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and clinicians

• Learn how privacy, security, and regulation shape real-world healthcare technology

• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and planning

• Take responsibility for seeing tasks through, from problem understanding to implementation and iteration

• Bring creative ideas to the team and participate in the overall development of the business - everyone wears many hats at Hesta Health!

• Experiment with building agent-based tools and workflows to support clinical and operations teams, focusing on practical utility, speed, and reliability

• Learn how to design and deploy AI-assisted features responsibly in a healthcare environment, with guidance from experienced engineers and clinicians

Who You Are

We’re not looking for someone who already knows everything.  We are looking for someone who:

• Learns quickly and uses tools intelligently

• Takes ownership and follows through

• Thinks pragmatically about trade-offs in a lean environment

• Cares about impact, quality, and trust

• Is open to feedback and eager to improve

If you’re excited by the mission and think you could grow into a strong engineer with the right support, we’d love to hear from you, even if your experience doesn’t perfectly match what’s below.

This might be you if you have:

• A university degree (undergraduate or postgraduate, completed or in progress) in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related field

• Strong coding skills, preferably with full stack experience

• Comfortable using modern AI-assisted development tools and curious about building practical agent-based systems that help teams work more effectively

• Excited to experiment, learn quickly, and build useful internal tools even when the first version is simple or scrappy

• Interested in learning from clinicians and domain experts and translating real-world workflows into practical technical solutions

• Enjoys working across the stack and is motivated by seeing ideas move quickly from concept to working software

• Strong fundamentals and a desire to build things that are correct, usable, and maintainable

• A high comfort level taking responsibility in a small team with limited resources; pragmatic, thoughtful, and solution-oriented

• Curiosity and self-direction, but are also humble enough to ask questions and seek feedback

• A careful and conscientious approach, especially when working with sensitive data or user-facing systems

• Passion and excitement for the startup environment because you want to contribute meaningfully and grow quickly, not because you expect everything to be polished

• A genuine interest in women’s health and connected to the Hesta mission

Skills & Interests (Flexible)

Core skills or interests:

• Python and/or JavaScript

• Solid understanding of data structures, APIs, or web development

• Interest in building AI-enabled products using LLMs, automation, and agent-style workflows

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with tools like React, SQL, APIs, or Python-based tooling; exposure to LLM APIs or automation tools is a plus

• Exposure to cloud platforms or basic DevOps concepts

• Previous coursework, personal projects, or hackathon experience in health, AI, or data

What You’ll Get

• Hands-on experience working on real problems in a health tech startup

• The chance to shape meaningful work that improves care for women and birthing parents

• Close mentorship from experienced founders and engineers

• Practical experience building and deploying AI-assisted tools and internal systems responsibly within a real healthcare environment

• Clear feedback and increasing responsibility as you grow

• A supportive, mission-driven team that values curiosity, rigour, and kindness

• Experience that will lay the foundation for your next opportunity

We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

If there is anything we can do to accommodate your situation, please let us know.