Medical Doctor (Specialist) – AI Clinical SME Contractor

About the role

In this hourly, remote contractor role you will work as a Medical Doctor (Specialist) Subject Matter Expert (SME) to review AI‑generated clinical responses and create expert medical content. You will evaluate reasoning quality, step‑by‑step problem‑solving and provide precise written feedback to improve AI model safety and accuracy.

Key responsibilities

• Develop AI training content: create detailed prompts and gold‑standard answers across clinical topics aligned to your specialty, ensuring accuracy and appropriate scope.
• Optimize AI performance: evaluate and rank AI responses to enhance correctness, safety, clarity, and contextual relevance.
• Ensure model integrity: test AI outputs for inaccuracies, unsafe recommendations, and bias; validate reliability across use cases and patient populations.

Required profile

• MD/DO (or equivalent) with completed specialty training and board eligibility/certification.
• 5+ years of post‑training clinical experience in a specialty setting.
• Confident in advanced clinical reasoning, differential diagnosis, triage, red‑flags and escalation pathways.
• Strong understanding of disease processes, guideline‑based care, diagnostic pathways and patient‑safety considerations.
• Exceptional attention to detail when fact‑checking clinical content and identifying unsafe assumptions.
• Comfortable evaluating answers for internal consistency, appropriateness for setting and risk/benefit trade‑offs.
• Reliable, self‑directed and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote workflow across time zones.
• Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, guideline work, utilization review, clinical documentation review or healthcare editorial QA is strongly preferred.