Internal Medicine Specialist - Consultant

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

Job summary

Obsidian is collaborating with a leading AI lab to recruit Internal Medicine experts for a unique opportunity to enhance AI model training using healthcare data. This role involves designing clinical scenarios and evaluating model outputs while working asynchronously.

Ideal candidates include board-certified attendings, final-year residents, and fellows. Compensation ranges from $130 to $300 per hour, with the possibility of increasing hours beyond the default of 20 per week based on demand.

Qualifications

• Must be currently active and licensed in Internal Medicine.
• Fellows must be board-eligible or certified in primary specialty.
• Attending physicians must hold an unrestricted medical license.

Responsibilities

• Design clinically realistic prompts from IM practice.
• Write high-quality reference responses.
• Grade AI-generated responses against rubrics.
• Provide feedback to improve model behavior.
• Participate in onboarding and calibration sessions.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Treatment planning

Guideline concordance

Diagnostic reasoning

Education

Board certified in Internal Medicine

Final year of 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.