If you are looking to run studies someone else designed, this job is not for you. If you are looking to write papers as an end in itself, this job is not for you. If you are looking to lean in and get your hands dirty, bruised, and bloody building the clinical evidence base for medical AI in low-resource settings from nothing, shaping the safeguards at the point of care, and impacting hundreds of millions of lives, this job might be for you.
The ideal candidate is a brilliant builder who is also a practicing clinician. They are smart, ambitious, scrappy, autonomous, precise, motivated, hard-working, and low-ego. They have medical training and clinical practice (MD, GP, MBBS, or equivalent) with direct experience delivering care, and they reason fluidly from how diagnosis, triage, treatment, and referral actually happen at the bedside. They have a concrete, on-the-ground understanding of clinical and care-delivery workflows in LMICs and what those workflows mean for how AI tools must be designed and evaluated. Does that sound rare? It is rare, and we would like to find them.
You will own the clinical research and evaluation agenda for OpenEvidence in global health. You will design the clinical evaluations and validation frameworks that establish how OpenEvidence performs in LMIC contexts, covering accuracy, safety, multilingual performance, and real-world conditions, working side by side with our research, evaluation, and product teams. You will develop theories of change and outcome metrics that connect OpenEvidence’s capabilities to care quality, health-worker performance, and patient outcomes, and you will help shape the safeguards that make the product safe and usable at the point of care. You will stay grounded in how care is actually delivered in low-resource settings and translate that into product improvements, not just evaluations. You will join a small, tight-knit global health team: you lead on this domain, but you should expect to roll up your sleeves on adjacent workstreams, help set overall strategy, and be a thought partner to colleagues working on other parts of the health system. You will spend roughly 25% of your time at research and partner sites.