Head of Clinical AI Research

Concurrence; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Catered meals

Mental health support

Wellness stipend

Learning budget

Conferences attendance

Team offsite

Academic collaborations

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Concurrence is building an in-house research function to advance clinical AI. As Head of Research, you’ll lead recruitment, set the research agenda with the CTO, and establish how our agents are evaluated across benchmarks and real-world deployment.

You’ll drive publications, collaborations, and regulatory dialogue while ensuring research informs product decisions and aligns with clinical practice.

Qualifications

• Experience leading research programs with ownership of scope, timelines, and decisions to stop.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the research team by hiring researchers and setting the research agenda with our CTO
• Own how we evaluate clinical agents, including benchmarks, patient simulation, diagnostic reasoning evaluation, and the standards a system must meet before it reaches a patient
• Design and run studies that hold up to clinical scrutiny, and decide which programs continue and which should stop
• Publish, and turn our existing academic partnerships into substantive collaborations rather than logos
• Represent Concurrence’s research externally to clinicians, regulators, academic partners, and the wider research community
• Own how we describe what our systems can and cannot do, including limitations, with the judgment that regulated communication requires
• Work directly with the clinicians on our team so evaluation reflects real clinical practice
• Translate findings into product decisions, working with engineering and the deployment teams so research changes what we ship

Skills

Research leadership

AI for health

Publications & studies

Clinical evaluation

Hiring researchers

Regulatory awareness

Communication skills

Ownership mindset

Job description

Concurrence is building an in-house research function to advance clinical AI. As Head of Research, you’ll lead recruitment, set the research agenda with the CTO, and establish how our agents are evaluated across benchmarks and real-world deployment.

You’ll drive publications, collaborations, and regulatory dialogue while ensuring research informs product decisions and aligns with clinical practice.