Medical Expert - AI Trainer

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: General Clinician (MD/DO) - HLS Expert Pool
Type: Contract
Compensation: $150/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 20+ hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Develop grading criteria by breaking clinical questions into discrete, checkable criteria for consistent model response grading.
• Evaluate clinical dialogues for accuracy, safety, completeness, and appropriate escalation advice.
• Annotate clinical reasoning by recording case work-throughs, including differentials considered and rejected.
• Review outputs to flag hallucinated findings, dangerous omissions, and technically correct but clinically unsafe advice.
• Author guidelines defining edge cases and standards of care for consistent annotation across clinicians.
• Write difficult cases to probe the limits of current model reasoning.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• MD or DO with a completed residency in any specialty
• Active, unrestricted medical license in your country of practice
• 3+ years post-residency clinical experience
• Comfort writing structured clinical rationale
• Written and spoken English fluency
• Minimum 20 hours per week

Preferred

• Board certification in your specialty
• U.S. licensure and familiarity with U.S. standards of care
• Background in primary care, internal medicine, emergency medicine, or hospitalist roles
• Experience in clinical annotation, AI evaluation, or medical education
• Experience in grading-criteria design or clinical guideline development
• Published research or sustained technical writing (please link a sample)

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected]

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