Clinical Specialist, Health Optimization

Google Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 126,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Health in New York, NY, USA seeks a Clinical Specialist to embed human context into early AI development for health research programs and products. You will apply clinical and AI expertise across product life-cycle and work with cross-functional teams to drive meaningful health impact globally.

The role requires a data-driven approach, strong communication, and leadership to design GenAI solutions with health relevance and rigor.

Qualifications

• Doctoral degree in a clinical field (MD/DO/MBBS/PharmD/DNP/PsyD/PhD)
• 2 years of experience in patient care
• 1 year experience applying frameworks that integrate social sciences, human context, or public health principles into technology development
• 1 year experience with evaluation of AI product or digital health product development

Responsibilities

• Contribute clinical and methodological expertise using AI, research, and product know-how to shape roadmaps across Google Health.
• Collaborate with research, engineering, product, and UX teams to guide integration of human context into GenAI model development, evaluation and design.
• Support development of robust data pipelines to manage end-to-end life-cycle of health datasets, ensuring curation and analysis grounded in human context.
• Pinpoint and implement technical interventions at critical model development stages, from dataset curation to deployment.
• Apply methods to evaluate AI model performance across populations, combining ML, social science, and public health principles for scaled health AI.

Skills

Patient care experience

Frameworks integrating social context

AI/digital health evaluation

Education

Doctoral clinical degree

Job description

Clinical Specialist, Health Optimization

Google New York, NY, USA

Mid

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

• Doctoral degree in a clinical field (e.g., MD, DO, MBBS, PharmD, DNP, PsyD, PhD).
• 2 years of experience in patient care.
• 1 year experience applying frameworks that integrate social sciences, human context, or public health principles into technology development.
• 1 year experience with evaluation of AI product or digital health product development.

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced computational degree (e.g., PhD, MPH, MS) with applied experience in health, such as nursing informatics, biomedical informatics, human computer interaction, biostatistics, behavior science, or computer science.
• Experience in clinical practice in global settings or treating patients across the lifecourse, including pediatric and geriatric populations.
• Computational skills in AI/ML applied to health, developing and using methods for evaluating and mitigating AI model performance, including disaggregated evaluation and benchmarking.
• Background in medical anthropology, sociology, ecological systems, or other sociobehavioral sciences.
• Demonstrated track record of health-related publications or contributions to AI/ML products in the health domain.

About the job

As a Clinical Specialist for Health Optimization, you will plan and execute against project goals to embed human context into the early stages of AI development to support research programs and products. You will have h a data-driven, proactive approach, support the creation and evaluation of GenAI solutions to achieve meaningful health impact on a global scale.

In this role, you will use your clinical and AI expertise, knowledge of the research-to-product life-cycle, and strong communication and leadership skills to contribute to the design and implementation of GenAI solutions. You have experience in health AI research, development, and deployment, with expertise in working cross-functionally with non-clinical teams (engineering, product management, User Experience/User Experience Research (UX/UXR), legal, and regulatory affairs). You will have a demonstrable background as a professional with solid expertise in a clinical or advanced health research field and experience evaluating AI models.

Google for Health is a company-wide effort to help billions of people be healthier. We work toward this goal by meeting people in their everyday moments and empowering them to stay healthy and partnering with care teams to provide more accurate and accessible care. Our teams are applying our expertise and technology to improve health outcomes globally – with high-quality information and tools to help people manage their health and wellbeing, solutions to transform care delivery, research to catalyze the use of artificial intelligence for the screening and diagnosis of disease, and data and insights to the public health community.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $126000 - $180000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• Contribute clinical and methodological expertise using AI, research, and product expertise to shape product and research roadmaps across Google.
• Collaborate effectively with research, engineering, product, and UX teams to guide the integration of human context, including social and structural factors into GenAI model development, evaluation, and product design.
• Support the development of robust data pipelines to manage the end-to-end life-cycle of complex health datasets, ensuring curation and analysis are grounded in human context to drive meaningful insights.
• Pinpoint and implement technical interventions at critical junctures of the model development life-cycle, from pre-training dataset curation to product deployment to ensure effective and impactful health AI solutions.
• Apply comprehensive knowledge to execute methodologies for evaluating AI model performance across various populations, combining machine learning, social science, and public health principles to build scaled approaches to health AI.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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