Physical Therapist, Clinical Expert (Contract)

Kinetic Systems; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 193,000; Part time

Job summary

Kinetic Systems, Inc. is seeking a licensed physical therapist to join an applied AI research lab in San Francisco.

This part-time contract role emphasizes clinical judgment over coding, with 10–15 hours per week for one month and potential extension. You will work with researchers to showcase what good rehabilitation care looks like in referrals, evaluations, and care plans, and you’ll author clinical cases from the ground up, including creating realistic patient charts and deciding what

Qualifications

• Active, unrestricted PT license in any US state.
• DPT or MPT/BSPT with equivalent clinical experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on patient care as PT.
• Currently practicing or practiced within last 3 years.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with researchers to translate clinical care into AI testing and evaluation.
• Author clinical cases, build realistic patient charts, and assess the strength of responses.

Skills

Licensed PT

Clinical judgment

Written English

Education

DPT

MPT/BSPT

Job description

Physical Therapist, Clinical Expert (Contract)

• San Francisco (on-site strongly preferred)

• 10–15 hours/week for 1 month (possible extension)

• $70 - $140/hr

About the role

You will work with an applied AI research lab at the intersection of healthcare and AI. We're looking for licensed physical therapists to bring real rehabilitation judgment into how AI is tested and improved.

This is a part-time contract role that fits alongside clinical practice. No coding or AI experience is required; we'll teach you the tools. What matters most is your clinical eye: catching the red flag in a referral or the change in a progress note that should alter the plan of care.

What you'll do

Clinical judgment is hard to teach, and that's where you come in. You'll partner with our researchers to show them what good care looks like in rehabilitation, from referrals, evaluations and plans of care to the decisions that never make it into a textbook.

You'll then put that expertise into practice by authoring clinical cases from the ground up. For each one, you'll assemble a realistic patient chart, pose the clinical question, answer it yourself, and decide what separates a strong response from a weak or unsafe one.

Requirements

• Active, unrestricted physical therapist license in any US state
• Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT), or an MPT/BSPT with equivalent clinical experience
• 3+ years of direct, hands‑on patient care as a licensed PT
• Currently practicing, or in clinical practice within the last 3 years
• Experience in at least two practice settings (for example, outpatient, acute care, inpatient rehab, skilled nursing, home health or pediatrics)
• Working knowledge of current clinical practice guidelines and standard outcome measures
• Excellent written English: you can explain your clinical reasoning precisely and concisely
• Able to commit 10–15 hours per week for at least 1 month (possible extension)

Preferred qualifications

None of these are required. If you have a few, we especially want to hear from you.

Clinical depth

• ABPTS board certification in any specialty (for example, OCS, NCS, SCS, GCS, PCS, CCS or WCS)
• Residency or fellowship training, including FAAOMPT
• Experience in less common areas such as vestibular, pelvic health, oncology, wound care, lymphedema or cardiopulmonary rehab
• Strong command of documentation and payer rules (SOAP notes, plans of care, progress notes, Medicare requirements)

Experience evaluating and teaching

• Writing exam questions for the NPTE, a DPT program or continuing education courses
• Clinical instructor or DPT faculty experience
• Chart audit, utilization review, quality assurance or compliance work
• Peer reviewing for journals, or clinical research experience

Experience with AI

• Prior work writing rubrics, building test cases or reviewing AI outputs, on any platform

How you work

• You make consistent, well‑reasoned judgments across many similar cases, and you can point to the specific evidence behind each one
• You enjoy building the hard case: the atypical presentation, the conflicting history, the patient who doesn't fit the textbook
• You work independently, hit agreed timelines, and are comfortable giving and receiving direct written feedback
• You care about getting each case right more than producing a lot of them