Clinical Data Specialist, AI for Robotic Surgery

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 89,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive seeks a highly motivated Clinical Data Specialist to support AI/ML development for robotic-assisted surgery. Responsibilities include creating and validating ground truth datasets from surgical videos and images, and ensuring data quality across clinical and product development workflows.

You will work with ML engineers, surgeons, and data teams to translate clinical requirements into precise annotations, maintaining rigorous documentation and traceability throughout the process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in biology, physiology, biomedical engineering, nursing, clinical sciences, health sciences, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of human anatomy and an interest in learning surgical procedures across multiple specialties.
• Experience interpreting medical images, surgical videos, clinical workflows, or other complex visual data.
• Experience with data annotation, clinical data review, medical research, clinical operations, or a related field.
• Ability to learn and use specialized annotation platforms, data-management systems, and project-tracking tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to recognize patterns, inconsistencies, and potential data-quality risks.
• Demonstrated ability to follow detailed clinical definitions and apply them consistently.
• Excellent documentation skills and the ability to clearly explain annotation decisions and clinical reasoning.
• Ability to handle confidential, proprietary, and sensitive clinical information professionally.

Responsibilities

• Review annotations produced by human annotators, clinical experts, external providers, and AI/ML models to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Identify, document, and elevate ambiguous cases, annotation discrepancies, and data-quality risks for clinical review or adjudication.
• Participate in annotation training, calibration, qualification, and inter-annotator agreement activities.
• Maintain annotation guidelines, quality criteria, review decisions, dataset changes, and other supporting documentation.
• Support traceability between source data, annotation versions, quality reviews, adjudication decisions, and approved dataset outputs.
• Collaborate with engineers, researchers, surgeons, clinical experts, and external providers to translate clinical data requirements into annotation and review activities.
• Contribute to clinical data collection, tool and model evaluation, and workflow improvements that increase efficiency while maintaining clinical accuracy and data quality.
• Conduct clinical research through literature review, procedural analysis, and consultation with clinical experts to support AI/ML research and product-development needs.

Skills

Clinical data review

Data annotation

Medical imaging interpretation

Documentation

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in biology/related field

Tools

Annotation platforms

Job description

Intuitive seeks a highly motivated Clinical Data Specialist to support AI/ML development for robotic-assisted surgery. Responsibilities include creating and validating ground truth datasets from surgical videos and images, and ensuring data quality across clinical and product development workflows.

You will work with ML engineers, surgeons, and data teams to translate clinical requirements into precise annotations, maintaining rigorous documentation and traceability throughout the process.