Mercor

Description

Join a leading AI lab’s cutting-edge GenAI team and help build foundational AI models from the ground up. We are seeking Distinguished Medical Experts across a range of advanced medical specialties to bring deep domain expertise and elevate the quality of AI training data. This is a W2 employment opportunity with a long-term contract, flexible 10–40 hours per week, working directly with frontier AI research teams.

You’ll join a team of medicine leaders to and together, you’ll guide the next generation of medical AI toward real-world safety, precision, and impact.

Frontier Domains of Interest

• Oncology (Medical, Hematology-Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Surgical Oncology)

• Cardiology (especially Interventional & Electrophysiology)

• Infectious Disease (emerging pathogens, antimicrobial resistance, pandemics)

• Endocrinology (genetics of diabetes/obesity, metabolic engineering)

• Nephrology (artificial kidneys, transplant immunology)

• Rheumatology / Clinical Immunology (autoimmune disease, biologics, immunogenomics)

• Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine (ARDS, ECMO, long-COVID, lung transplantation)

• Geriatric Medicine (aging biology, senolytics, lifespan extension)

• Neurosurgery (brain–machine interfaces, microsurgery, neuro-oncology)

• Cardiothoracic Surgery (artificial hearts, xenotransplantation)

• Vascular Surgery (robotics, endovascular innovation)

• Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (tissue engineering, transplantation)

• Pediatric Subspecialties including Neonatology & Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

• Neurology & Subspecialties (stroke, epilepsy, neurodegeneration, neuromuscular medicine)

• Psychiatry (neuropsychiatry, addiction, computational psychiatry)

• Medical Genetics & Genomics (CRISPR, rare diseases, precision medicine)

• Dermatology (immunodermatology, melanoma, genetic skin disease)

• Pathology (molecular & computational pathology, AI in histology)

• Radiology (diagnostic & interventional, theranostics, imaging AI)

• Nuclear Medicine (theranostic agents, PET tracers)

• Anesthesiology / Pain Medicine (novel anesthetics, neural modulation, consciousness science)

• PM&R (Rehabilitation Medicine) (exoskeletons, robotics, neuroplasticity)

• Preventive Medicine (genomics, pandemic preparedness, climate-health interface)

• Transplant Medicine (immunotolerance, organ regeneration, xenotransplantation)

• Palliative Care (digital symptom tracking, AI for comfort care)

• Clinical Informatics (AI/ML, decision support, big data in healthcare)

What You’ll Do

• Guide research teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model reasoning in your domain.

• Develop annotation standards, evaluation frameworks, and high-rigor rubrics for clinical reasoning.

• Design challenging, domain-relevant tasks and write gold-standard solutions.

• Evaluate AI-generated outputs, providing structured feedback to ensure medical accuracy.

• Collaborate with peers across disciplines to maintain consistency and depth in training data.

Qualifications

• Location: Based in the US

• Education: MD or DO from a reputable institution

• Experience: 5+ years of post-training clinical practice in one of the listed frontier specialties (top-tier institution preferred)

What We Offer

• Pay range: $200–$600/hr (based on specialty and experience)

• Role length: Long-term (6–12 months)

• Structure: W2 employment with flexible, remote work

• Commitment: ~10–40 hrs/week; 2–5 calibration calls with research teams weekly

• Opportunity to directly shape the next generation of advanced AI systems at the frontier of medicine and technology