Member of Clinical Staff

The role

You will drive the research agenda to advance AI model capabilities on real-world healthcare tasks. You will build reinforcement learning environments, datasets, and benchmarks, and publish academic papers.

What you will do

• Design and build evaluations that reflect real clinical work
• Find where frontier models fall short on real clinical workflows
• Turn gaps into environments, evals, and benchmarks
• Write rubrics and guidelines that capture expert clinical judgment
• Build gold-standard datasets
• Pilot new tasks and set the quality bar for the clinician network
• Lead calibration with clinician raters and adjudicate hard cases
• Work with the ML team to turn training and evaluation needs into clinical data
• Write and publish papers in academic conferences

Required qualifications

• Must have one of the following medical degrees: MD, DO, MBBS, NP, or PA
• 2+ years of experience working in a real clinical environment
• Serious work in the human data space, at a frontier AI lab or a human data company
• Built RL environments, evals, or graders
• Understand how data quality shapes model training, including preference data, rubric design, and rater agreement
• Understand healthcare data (e.g., EHR data structures, interoperability, HIPAA considerations)
• Comfortable working with code: read and modify environment and grader code, write scripts to build and analyze datasets, and dig into model outputs

Nice to have

• JavaScript/TypeScript, CI/CD, or AWS experience
• Experience shipping production software or digital health products
• Experience with clinical workflow analysis or quality improvement initiatives
• Work in Git alongside engineers (branches, PRs, code review)

Benefits

• Founding-level impact and ownership
• An opportunity to advance AI research in one of its most meaningful application areas
• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Free lunch + dinner

About the company

Kinetic Systems is a healthcare AI research lab. They partner with frontier labs and healthcare organizations to help make AI models safer and more reliable.