Clinical AI Specialist (MD/DO) — Remote Contract

Benture; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor seeks residency-trained physicians to join a shared AI expert pool in a remote contractor role. You will contribute clinical expertise to evaluate and shape AI systems, with assignments across multiple workstreams based on specialty and availability.

You will grade criteria, assess dialogues, document diagnostic reasoning, review outputs for safety, author guidelines, and craft challenging case questions. Remote, flexible, non-clinical work.

Qualifications

• MD or DO with a completed residency in any specialty.
• Active, unrestricted medical license in your country of practice.
• 3+ years of post-residency clinical experience.
• Ability to write structured clinical rationale accessible to non-specialist reviewers.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Availability of minimum 20 hours per week, with flexibility to concentrate hours during time-boxed workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Grading Criteria Development: Break down clinical questions into discrete, checkable criteria for consistent model evaluation.
• Clinical Dialogue Evaluation: Review multi-turn clinical conversations for accuracy, safety, completeness, and appropriate escalation advice.
• Clinical Reasoning Annotation: Document your full diagnostic reasoning process, including differentials considered and rejected.
• Output Review: Identify hallucinated findings, dangerous omissions, unsupported certainty, and clinically unsafe advice.
• Guideline Authoring: Define edge cases and standards of care to ensure annotation consistency across large clinician groups.
• Difficult-Case Writing: Construct clinical questions that probe the limits of current AI reasoning.

Skills

English fluency

Clinical rationale writing

Education

MD/DO with residency

Job description

Mercor seeks residency-trained physicians to join a shared AI expert pool in a remote contractor role. You will contribute clinical expertise to evaluate and shape AI systems, with assignments across multiple workstreams based on specialty and availability.

You will grade criteria, assess dialogues, document diagnostic reasoning, review outputs for safety, author guidelines, and craft challenging case questions. Remote, flexible, non-clinical work.