[Hiring] Clinical AI Research Fellow @Kinetic Systems

Role Description

Kinetic Systems is a healthcare AI research lab. We partner with frontier labs and healthcare organizations to help make AI models safer and more reliable. Our Clinical AI Research Fellowship is a selective program open to strong clinicians with an interest in shaping the future of AI in healthcare. This is a part-time, in-person (San Francisco) or remote (U.S only) role.

• Duration: 3-6 months
• Time commitment: Minimum 10 hours per week
• Stipend: $1500 per week
• Resources: API credits, GPU support, human data budgets, mentorship & access to evaluation infrastructure

As a Clinical AI Research Fellow, you’ll work closely with AI researchers, engineers, and clinicians to help improve healthcare AI for patients and providers. If selected as a Fellow, you will have the opportunity to work with frontier AI labs, leading academic institutions, and pioneers in the medical field to help shape the future of AI in healthcare. Your insights will directly impact AI models used by hundreds of millions of patients and providers every day.

• Your insights will define how providers leverage these technologies to drive better care outcomes for their patients.
• In addition to working with frontier AI labs, you will have the opportunity to publish peer-reviewed academic research with our team.
• Earn the ability to participate in future projects.

Qualifications

• Medical student (4th year), Resident (PGY-2+), MD, DO, NP, PA, RN or PharmD
• Experience working with sensitive healthcare data
• Prior background working with RL environments, evals, rubrics is a plus, but not required

Requirements

• Develop novel tasks and benchmarks that reflect real-world healthcare workflows
• Evaluate frontier models on complex clinical tasks, and critically analyze their failure modes
• Design end-to-end experiments and propose novel research directions for assessing model capabilities
• Partner with leading AI researchers to refine and iterate on your work
• Participate in weekly check-ins and weekly group presentations

Benefits

• Gain an unparalleled understanding of how AI will impact medicine and your career
• Learn directly from AI PhD researchers
• Co-author papers for peer-reviewed journals and ML conferences
• Curated invitations to researcher events & gatherings

Company Description

Our company is founded on a decade of healthcare AI research conducted at Stanford University at the intersection of AI, benchmarking, and healthcare. Our team has published work in leading peer-reviewed venues including NEJM AI, Nature Medicine, JAMIA, NeurIPS, ICLR, and VLDB.

See some of our team's prior work here .