Internal Medicine Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $180/hr

Obsidian; New York (NY); Remote; USD 179,088 - 413,280; Part time

Job summary

Obsidian is partnering with a leading AI lab seeking Internal Medicine experts to design clinical scenarios and evaluate AI outputs. This role offers flexible remote engagement at 20 hours per week, starting post-onboarding, with rates between $130 and $300 per hour depending on seniority.

The ideal candidates will include board-certified attending physicians and final-year residents or fellows. Responsibilities involve creating prompts from practice and grading AI-generated responses, enhancing the model's reasoning.

Qualifications

• Must be board certified with a current, active, unrestricted medical license.
• Final year residents must be board-eligible.
• Fellows must be board-certified/board-eligible in primary specialty.

Responsibilities

• Design clinically realistic prompts and scenarios from IM practice.
• Write 'golden' reference responses at attending-level quality.
• Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics.
• Provide written feedback for improving model behavior.
• Participate in onboarding office hours and specialty calibration sessions.

Skills

Board Certification

Diagnostic Reasoning

Treatment Planning

Risk Stratification

Education

Current Medical License

Final Year Residency or Fellowship

Job description

About the Role

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality healthcare reasoning data. We're hiring Internal Medicine experts to design clinical scenarios, evaluate model outputs against evidence-based standards, and help shape how the next generation of AI reasons about patient care.

We welcome IM attendings, hospitalists, IM subspecialists (Cardiology, Heme/Onc, Endocrinology, Nephrology, GI, Pulm, etc. encouraged to apply via the matching specialty listing where available), final-year IM residents, and IM fellows.

What You'll Do

• Design clinically realistic prompts and scenarios drawn from your IM practice (diagnostic reasoning, treatment planning, risk stratification, guideline concordance)
• Write "golden" reference responses at attending-level quality
• Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics
• Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior
• Participate in onboarding office hours and specialty calibration sessions

Who You Are

• Attending physicians: Must be board certified with current, active, unrestricted medical license
• Resident physicians: Must be in final year of residency (recent graduates must be board-eligible)
• Fellows: Must be board-certified/board-eligible in primary specialty and have current active, unrestricted medical license

Rates

$130–$300/hr payable, set per seniority tier (early-career → senior attending). Your specific rate is confirmed in your offer.

Engagement

• Remote, 100% asynchronous
• 20 hrs/wk default (can be raised after onboarding based on demand)
• Paid weekly via Mercor
• Start: rolling, after onboarding sign-off
• Duration: ongoing, reviewed monthly

Before Your First Task

You’ll receive an onboarding doc and a calendar invite for Onboarding Office Hours after you accept.