Primary Care Experts (Contract)

mpathic; United States; Remote; USD 138,000 - 276,000; Full time

Job summary

mpathic.ai is seeking experienced physicians to evaluate and improve AI systems used in healthcare. As a Clinical Subject Matter Expert, you will design realistic clinical scenarios, assess AI responses, and provide expert feedback to enhance safety, accuracy, and alignment with real-world clinical practice.

This is a contract, project-based opportunity collaborating with clinicians, researchers, and AI experts.

Qualifications

• Board-certified or board-eligible physicians with an active license
• Strong clinical judgment and clear written communication skills
• Experience in medical education, research, quality improvement, or guideline development is a plus but not required

Responsibilities

• Create realistic, high-quality patient scenarios reflecting real-world medical decision-making.
• Evaluate AI-generated responses using structured evaluation frameworks for clinical accuracy, safety, and quality.
• Provide actionable feedback to improve performance, reliability, and trust in frontier AI systems.
• Collaborate with the research team through onboarding, calibration sessions, and ongoing quality discussions to ensure consistent evaluations.

Skills

Clinical judgment

Written communication

Education

MD/DO degree

Medical license

Job description

About mpathic.ai

mpathic is keeping humans safe in the AI era through automated tools and expert datasets that are rooted in psychology and powered by clinicians. We are a series A start-up backed by Tier 1 investors including Foundry.vc and Next Frontier Capital.

If you have applied for an expert role within the past 12 months, you do not need to reapply.

About the role

mpathic is seeking experienced physicians to help evaluate and improve the next generation of AI systems used in healthcare. As a Clinical Subject Matter Expert, you'll apply your medical expertise to design realistic clinical scenarios, assess AI-generated responses, and provide expert feedback that helps make AI models safer, more accurate, and better aligned with real-world clinical practice. This is a contract, project-based opportunity to influence cutting-edge AI development while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, researchers, and AI experts. Your expertise will directly impact how AI systems reason, communicate, and support clinical decision-making across healthcare.

What You'll Do

• Apply your clinical expertise to create realistic, high-quality patient scenarios that reflect real-world medical decision-making.
• Evaluate AI-generated responses using structured evaluation frameworks to assess clinical accuracy, safety, and quality.
• Provide thoughtful, actionable feedback that helps improve the performance, reliability, and trustworthiness of frontier AI systems.
• Collaborate with mpathic's research team through onboarding, calibration sessions, and ongoing quality discussions to ensure consistent, high-quality evaluations.

Qualifications

We're looking for clinicians who are passionate about advancing the safe and responsible use of AI in healthcare.

You are one of the following:

• Attending Physician: Board certified with a current, active, unrestricted medical license.
• Resident Physician: In your final year of residency or a recent graduate who is board eligible.
• Fellow: Board certified or board eligible in your primary specialty with a current, active, unrestricted medical license.

You bring strong clinical judgment, clear written communication skills, and an interest in shaping the next generation of AI systems through expert human evaluation. Experience with medical education, research, quality improvement, or clinical guideline development is a plus, but not required.

Compensation

This is a contract, project-based position. The hourly rate will depend on experience and project parameters. The rate will be disclosed prior to starting the project.