via Mercor

Internal Medicine Expert

Remote · Contract · $130-180/hr

About the Role

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality healthcare reasoning data. We're hiring Internal Medicine experts to design clinical scenarios, evaluate model outputs against evidence-based standards, and help shape how the next generation of AI reasons about patient care.

We welcome IM attendings, hospitalists, IM subspecialists (Cardiology, Heme/Onc, Endocrinology, Nephrology, GI, Pulm, etc. encouraged to apply via the matching specialty listing where available), final-year IM residents, and IM fellows.

What You'll Do

  • Design clinically realistic prompts and scenarios drawn from your IM practice (diagnostic reasoning, treatment planning, risk stratification, guideline concordance)

  • Write "golden" reference responses at attending-level quality

  • Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics

  • Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior

  • Participate in onboarding office hours and specialty calibration sessions

Who You Are

  • Attending physicians: Must be board certified with current, active, unrestricted medical license

  • Resident physicians: Must be in final year of residency (recent graduates must be board-eligible)

  • Fellows: Must be board-certified/board-eligible in primary specialty and have current active, unrestricted medical license

Rates

$130–$300/hr payable, set per seniority tier (early-career → senior attending). Your specific rate is confirmed in your offer.

Engagement

  • Remote, 100% asynchronous

  • 20 hrs/wk default (can be raised after onboarding based on demand)

  • Paid weekly via Mercor

  • Start: rolling, after onboarding sign-off

  • Duration: ongoing, reviewed monthly

Before Your First Task

You'll receive an onboarding doc and a calendar invite for Onboarding Office Hours after you accept.

Listing sourced from Mercor. Annotation Academy is independent of these platforms and does not guarantee work or pay. See our disclosures.