[Hiring] Senior Clinical Specialist, AI Systems @Function Health

Role Description

We are seeking a deeply experienced clinician to join our Clinical Product team as a Senior Clinical Specialist, AI Systems .

You will work with our product, engineering, and clinical teams to ensure the outputs of our AI systems that reach our members are clinically correct, clinically useful, and safe. The Clinical Product team is embedded in product development from kickoff. We own the clinical quality bar for surfaces like the Action Plan, the Clinician Note, Health Journeys, and member-facing AI chat. What this role contributes above all is clinical judgment applied to complex clinical scenarios and the ability to translate your findings to diverse cross-functional audiences. You will be contributing both upstream and downstream of our AI efforts:

• Upstream: Support the design of monitoring and evaluation systems for our AI products.
• Downstream: Evaluate clinical outputs that incorporate highly diverse data points like blood biomarkers, wearables, omics, imaging, and gut microbiome.
• Inspect what our AI systems produced to spot inaccuracies, omissions, and any harmful content.

While hands-on experience in clinical AI is highly advantageous but not mandatory, a desire to learn how AI systems work is essential. The ideal candidate is comfortable working through ambiguity, meticulous in their attention to detail, self-motivated, resourceful, and capable of thriving in a fast-paced environment. As an early member of this team, your contributions will play a critical role in shaping the future of our member experience as we scale from hundreds of thousands of members to millions.

This role is best suited for those energized by fast-paced environments, excited to build in a high-growth setting, and deeply motivated by our mission at Function. If you're looking for meaningful challenges, dynamic work, and the opportunity to make a real impact, we’d love to meet you.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the embedded clinical partner to a product pod, liaising between clinical, product, engineering, and licensed clinicians, and bringing systems-based, root-cause medicine principles into the build.
• Establish deep partnership with Engineering to design and run clinical AI evaluations.
• Define what “clinically meaningful” output looks like, set quality thresholds, build rubrics, and judge accuracy, clinical intent, omission, hallucination, and medication-safety failure modes against real data.
• Help translate clinical reasoning into technical specification — prompts, context and decision logic — partnering with engineers to identify where clinical logic must be embedded in AI systems rather than described around them.
• Own the clinical quality bar end-to-end for one or more AI product areas — from clinical requirements at kickoff through launch validation and ongoing monitoring.
• Flag when product behavior must evolve as evidence, guidelines, or the clinical standard of care shift.

Qualifications

• MD, DO, or equivalent clinical doctorate, with substantial hands-on clinical practice.
• Deep expertise in one or more clinical domains, ideally with an understanding of systems medicine approaches.
• Ability to apply strong clinical reasoning under timeline pressure and over long, dense tasks.
• Genuine curiosity about how AI systems work and a demonstrated ability to pick up technical craft quickly.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to adapt clinical information for very different audiences.
• A track record of owning something end-to-end in a cross-functional setting and driving it to completion.
• Comfortable with ambiguous and complex tasks, can operate autonomously under uncertainty on 0-to-1 projects.

Nice to Have Items

• Experience interpreting complex blood biomarkers, advanced imaging, genomics, gut microbiome, and wearable data.
• Prior exposure to clinical AI products, LLM evaluation, or prompt and context engineering.
• Background in longevity, functional, or root-cause medicine.
• Prior early-stage or high-growth startup experience.

Core Values

• Ruthless Prioritization: We don’t let perfect get in the way of progress. We move quickly to drive value, not perfection.
• Member-First, Always: We design and deliver like we’re caring for someone we love.
• One Team, Moving Fast: We are aligned in purpose, prioritization, and speed.
• Radical Ownership, Relentless Execution: We don’t just ship– we own outcomes and drive results.
• Mission Over Ego: We are ruthlessly aligned to our mission - and leave ego at the door.
• Sustained Integrity in Every Detail: We earn trust by obsessing over accuracy, quality, and clarity in everything we do.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Flexible working hours.
• A dynamic work environment where creativity and innovation are encouraged.

Important Notice

Legitimate communication from the Function Health team will always come from an email address ending in @functionhealth.com. Function Health will never request personal information such as banking details or payment during the hiring process. Please be cautious of communications or job offers that come from other email domains, instant messaging platforms, or unsolicited calls. If you ever have doubts about the legitimacy of a communication, please reach out to us directly at [email protected] .