Vitreoretinal Surgeon, Partnership Track

Sound Retina; Tacoma (WA); On-site; USD 380,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Path to ownership

Mentorship and collaboration

Team with retina-focused staff

Job summary

Sound Retina, P.S. seeks a vitreoretinal surgeon for a partnership-track role serving Tacoma, Olympia, and Kennewick. The position emphasizes full-scope retina care with hospital and ASC surgeries, plus in-office injections and laser.

You will share call and work alongside retina-focused staff, with a path to ownership and opportunities in teaching and research. Equity-minded, supportive team culture, and emphasis on patient-first care across multiple WA offices.

Qualifications

• MD or DO required or equivalent.
• Completion of an accredited vitreoretinal fellowship by September 2027.
• Board certified or board eligible in ophthalmology.
• Eligible for an unrestricted Washington medical license.
• Eligible for DEA registration and hospital privileges.
• Able to travel between Tacoma, Olympia, and Kennewick offices.
• Able to participate in shared call, about one week a month.

Responsibilities

• Provide full-scope medical and surgical retina care across Tacoma, Olympia, and Kennewick offices.
• Perform surgery at local hospital and ambulatory surgery center.
• Conduct in-office procedures, including intravitreal injections and laser.
• Share on-call duties, roughly one week per month.
• Collaborate with two retina-specific optometrists to optimize clinic time for patients in need of a surgeon.
• Research and teaching opportunities available but not required.

Education

MD or DO

Vitreoretinal fellowship completed by Sep 2027

Board certified or eligible in ophthalmology

Eligible for unrestricted WA medical license

Eligible for DEA registration and hospital privileges

Able to travel Tacoma, Olympia, Kennewick offices

Shared call ~1 week per month

Job description

Vitreoretinal Surgeon, Partnership Track

Sound Retina, P.S. | Tacoma, Olympia, and Kennewick, WA

Start date: September 2027

Why we're hiring

After many years of caring for patients in our community, one of our founding surgeons recently retired. We're looking for the next surgeon to build a career here and carry that care forward.

A first job or a last job

For surgeons finishing fellowship, we value mentorship. You'll have colleagues who are available on difficult cases and a real path to ownership.

For experienced surgeons who have found that private equity or distributor-owned practice isn't the right fit, we'd welcome the conversation. We're looking for people who want to stay.

What you'll do

• Full-scope medical and surgical retina across our Tacoma, Olympia, and Kennewick offices
• Surgery at a local hospital and an ambulatory surgery center
• In-office procedures, including intravitreal injections and laser
• Shared call, about one week a month
• Work alongside two retina-specific optometrists, so your clinic time goes to patients who need a surgeon. We'd be glad to show you how that works.
• Research and teaching, never required.
• You’ll report to a surgeon, not an administrator. Your clinical and performance feedback comes from physicians.

No noncompete

Why Sound Retina

• Decisions are made by the people who see the patients.
• A real path to ownership, and room to grow into research, teaching, or leadership.
• A small group where your ideas get heard from day one.
• A trained team. Our own clinical training program means the staff working with you know retina.
• A duty to our community. We accept Medicaid, and plans many practices won't take.

Research

We're an active clinical trial site with Phase 2 and Phase 3 trials, geographic atrophy studies, and investigator-initiated research.

Why Tacoma

Tacoma is Seattle's less famous, more affordable cousin, and a lot of people who live here like it that way.

You get the Puget Sound (our namesake) without the Seattle price tag. Housing costs less, Sea-Tac airport is about half an hour away, and Seattle is a tolerable drive up I-5 when you want the city.

Mount Rainier sits on the horizon on clear days, and the national park is close enough for a day trip. Point Defiance Park has old-growth forest, beaches, and a zoo and aquarium inside the city limits. The Olympic Peninsula, the San Juans, and the Cascades are all weekend trips.

Our Olympia office sits at the south end of the Sound in the state capital. Kennewick puts you on the sunny, dry side of the state, in the middle of Washington wine country.

Equal opportunity

Sound Retina is an equal opportunity employer. We don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, disability, use of a trained guide dog or service animal, genetic information, honorably discharged veteran or military status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. If you need an accommodation to apply or interview, contact us.

Our Tacoma office sits on the traditional lands of the Puyallup Tribe, who have lived along these waters beneath Mount Tahoma since time immemorial. We're honored to care for patients on their lands.

Required

• MD or DO
• Completion of an accredited vitreoretinal fellowship by September 2027
• Board certified or board eligible in ophthalmology
• Eligible for an unrestricted Washington medical license
• Eligible for DEA registration and hospital privileges
• Able to travel between our Tacoma, Olympia, and Kennewick offices
• Able to participate in shared call, about one week a month

Preferred

• Interest in clinical research or teaching