[Hiring] Clinical Physician @Pear VC

Role Description

We're building a clinical AI assistant that sits inside real practices — surfacing care gaps, assembling pre-visit prep, flagging risk, and suggesting treatment plans. None of that works without physicians defining what "correct" means.

Most clinical advisor roles are a monthly call where someone reacts to a demo. This one isn't. You'll be in the product loop weekly:

• Deciding what the assistant should flag.
• Determining what a good summary looks like at 7:50am before a 15-minute visit.
• Grading where the model is wrong and why.

Your judgment becomes our ground truth and our evaluation standard. We're looking for physicians across:

• Internal medicine
• Cardiology
• Oncology
• Other specialties

Qualifications

• MD or DO, board-certified or board-eligible
• Currently practicing or recently practicing — active clinical context matters more than titles
• Internal medicine, cardiology, oncology, or an adjacent specialty; primary care and multi-specialty experience especially welcome
• Day-to-day fluency in an EMR (Epic, eClinicalWorks, Athena, ModMed, or similar) and an honest view of where it fails you
• Opinionated about clinical workflow, and able to explain why something is right — not just that it is
• Comfortable with ambiguity, direct feedback, and being asked "how do you actually know that?"
• Genuinely interested in AI in medicine, including its failure modes

Requirements

• Define what the assistant should surface.
• Shape the pre-visit summary.
• Specify clinical search.
• Judge the AI.
• Build ground truth.
• Pressure-test the product.
• Contribute to publications.

Nice to have

• Clinical informatics training or CMIO-adjacent experience
• Experience with quality measures and value-based care programs (HEDIS, MIPS, CPT Category II, HCC coding)
• Prior work advising or building health tech products
• Research or publication background
• Experience training residents or fellows — the skill of articulating clinical reasoning out loud transfers directly

Commitment

• Part-time: 5–15 hours/week, flexible around clinical schedules. Async-friendly, with a recurring weekly working session.
• Full-time: for physicians ready to step into a founding clinical role and own clinical direction end to end.
• Remote is fine. Occasional in-person time in San Francisco or at partner clinic sites is a plus.

Benefits

• Direct, daily work with the founders — no layers between your input and what ships
• Real influence over a product that practicing physicians will use, not a pilot that dies in committee
• Competitive hourly rate for part-time engagements; competitive salary and meaningful equity for full-time
• Co-authorship on benchmarks and technical reports
• Visa sponsorship available for full-time roles