We are looking for General Clinician (MD/DO) - HLS Expert Pool candidates for a project delivered through Mercor.
What you'll do
- Apply clinical judgment to grading-criteria development, dialogue evaluation, and structured annotation work that determines how AI systems are measured.
- Develop grading criteria by breaking down clinical questions into discrete, checkable criteria for consistent model response grading.
- Evaluate multi-turn clinical conversations for accuracy, safety, completeness, appropriate hedging, and correctness of escalation advice.
- Annotate clinical reasoning by recording the process of working through a case, including differential diagnoses considered and rejected.
- Review AI outputs to flag hallucinated findings, dangerous omissions, unsupported certainty, and technically correct but clinically unsafe advice.
- Author guidelines by defining edge cases and standards of care for a specialty to ensure consistent annotation across clinicians.
- Write difficult clinical cases to test the limits of current model reasoning.
What you need
- Active, unrestricted medical license in country of practice.
- Ability to write structured clinical rationale that a non-specialist reviewer can follow.
Nice to have
- Board certification in specialty.
- U.S. licensure and familiarity with U.S. standards of care and clinical guidelines.
- Background in primary care, internal medicine, emergency medicine, or hospitalist medicine.
- Prior experience in clinical annotation, AI evaluation, medical education, or question-writing.
- Experience in grading-criteria design, resident assessment, or clinical guideline development.
- Published research or sustained technical writing.
Who you work with
Project and contracting process: Mercor. Applications continue on the provider's website.

