Lead Clinical Scientist

Faro AI Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental &amp

Retirement Plan (401k)

Life Insurance (Basic)

Disability Insurance (Short & Long)

Paid Time Off (Flexible Vacation, Sick

Hybrid Work Environment

Stock Option Plan

San Diego HQ On-Premises Amenities

Job summary

Faro AI Inc. in San Diego area is hiring a Lead Clinical Scientist to shape clinical strategy for our product and platform.

You will lead senior scientific work across product, data science, and engineering, ensuring rigor, regulatory awareness, and user-centric design in every feature. You will work with cross-functional teams to translate literature, trial data, and real-world evidence into credible solutions, while guiding regulatory and methodological challenges and representing Faro with

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in life sciences, clinical, or healthcare discipline.
• 10+ years in clinical research with leadership in biopharma/medtech/digital health.
• Deep knowledge of trial design, evidence generation, and regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level clinical and scientific leadership across product development initiatives.
• Define clinical frameworks, standards, and evidence models for Faro’s tools and platform.
• Collaborate with product and data science to design algorithms and decision-support features.
• Ensure clinical accuracy and usability of features for healthcare professionals.
• Lead interpretation and integration of literature, trial data, and real-world evidence into strategy.
• Anticipate regulatory and operational challenges and guide compliant solutions.
• Represent Faro as internal/external thought leader with customers and partners.
• Align market needs with product features and external communications.

Skills

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Regulatory awareness

Leadership

Education

PhD/MD/PharmD

Job description

About Faro

Faro aims to improve lives by helping life sciences companies design optimal clinical trials. Our AI-powered software platform optimizes and orchestrates complex clinical development by providing powerful insights into trial design and outcomes. Faro empowers researchers to design more intelligent trials, reduce development costs, and accelerate milestones with better patient experiences. Faro is a mission-driven company seeking world-class people who share our passion for improving drug availability and patient outcomes through better clinical trial design. We pride ourselves on a vibrant, inclusive, and growth mindset-oriented culture. Faro offers competitive compensation, equity, and benefits, including flexible working hours and generous time off. Remote employees work from home and visit the main office in San Diego for team events and in-person collaboration.

Position Summary

We are hiring a Lead Clinical Scientist to serve as the senior scientific voice within Faro’s product, data science, and AI organization. This role will drive the clinical strategy behind our most critical product features and platform capabilities, ensuring they reflect scientific rigor, regulatory awareness, and user-centric design. You will collaborate closely with data scientists, product managers, engineers, and other cross-functional stakeholders to define and deliver solutions that clinical scientists and professionals can trust and adopt. This role is ideal for a seasoned clinical research leader who combines deep domain expertise with a strategic mindset and thrives in highly collaborative, cross-functional environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level clinical and scientific leadership across product development initiatives.
• Define the clinical frameworks, standards, and evidence models that underpin Faro’s tools and platform.
• Collaborate with product and data science teams to design and refine algorithms, decision-support features, and structured content informed by best practices in clinical research.
• Ensure the clinical accuracy, methodological soundness, and usability of features intended for clinical scientists and other healthcare professionals.
• Lead the interpretation and integration of clinical literature, trial data, and real-world evidence into product strategy and development.
• Anticipate regulatory, methodological, and operational challenges, and guide the development of compliant and scientifically credible solutions.
• Serve as the internal and external thought leader on clinical science—representing Faro in discussions with customers, advisors, and partners.
• Collaborate with customer-facing and commercial team members to ensure alignment between market needs, product features, and external communication.

Requirements & Qualifications

Required:

• Advanced degree (PhD, PharmD, MD, or equivalent) in a life sciences, clinical, or healthcare-related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in clinical research, with a proven track record of scientific leadership in biopharma, medtech, or digital health.
• Deep knowledge of clinical trial design, clinical evidence generation, and regulatory-scientific standards.
• Experience working in or closely with cross-functional product, data science, or engineering teams.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate complex clinical problems into scalable product solutions.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and executive stakeholders alike.

Preferred:

• Experience in digital health product development or clinical decision-support platforms.
• Familiarity with real-world data, medical ontologies, or clinical informatics systems (e.g., MedDRA, SNOMED, ICD).
• History of authoring protocols, regulatory submissions, publications, or scientific communications.
• Experience representing clinical function in customer, partner, or regulatory-facing engagements.

Salary

Salary range for this position is $170,000 - $200,000 per year. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training

Equity

In addition to this position’s salary (listed above), equity will be a major component of the total compensation for this position. We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k)
• Life Insurance (Basic)
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Paid Time Off (Flexible Vacation Policy; Paid Sick & Public Holidays Observed)
• Training & Development Reimbursement
• Hybrid Work Environment
• Peer-to-peer bonus program
• Company/department outings and events
• Stock Option Plan
• San Diego HQ On-Premises Amenities; gym, restaurant tenant discount, Padel Nine