Senior Attending Physician (MDs)

Mercor is seeking senior attending physicians for a premier project with one of the world's top AI labs.

In this role, you will contribute your clinical expertise to a cutting-edge project involving state-of-the-art large language models. Specifically, you will help create high-quality data that will inform the future of AI innovation by developing complex diagnostic reasoning challenges grounded in real-world clinical scenarios.

You're a good fit if you:

• Are a senior attending physician at a teaching hospital (academic medical center or large tertiary-care institution)

• Specialize in a field with high diagnostic complexity such as Intensive Care Medicine, Infectious Disease, Rheumatology, Hematology-Oncology, or Neuro-Critical Care

• Routinely manage diagnostically challenging, multi-system cases requiring advanced clinical reasoning and interdisciplinary coordination

• Are actively involved in hands-on patient care through rounds, consult services, and multidisciplinary meetings

• Have strong communication skills and a deep commitment to clinical and scholarly excellence

Here are more details about the role:

• The role is ongoing, starting at the end of June/beginning of July and continuing with rolling applications

• The project involves 10–20 hours of work per week with the potential to expand up to 40 hours per week

Ideal candidates include:

• Associate or full Professors of Medicine who continue active practice at a research/teaching hospital

• Senior attending physicians with 5+ years of post-fellowship experience and a national reputation for diagnostic expertise

• Clinician-scientists who conduct research involving:Clinical trials or translational studiesMulti-omic or imaging-based diagnostic analysisCase series on novel or rare diseases

• Physicians with board certification in a relevant specialty and a record of peer-reviewed publications, guideline authorship, or funded research roles

• Mentors of residents or fellows who are recognized for teaching excellence in clinical reasoning

Screening Process:

• You will need to complete a short interview and form, which will take a total of 20–30 minutes to fully apply

• Currently, we are only accepting applicants from the U.S., UK, and Canada

Apply today and leverage your diagnostic and scholarly expertise to advance cutting-edge AI models!

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.