Inpatient Hospitalist (MD) — Clinical Documentation & AI Evaluation

Mercor is hiring practicing Inpatient Hospitalists (MD) on behalf of a healthcare AI partner building advanced clinical documentation and decision-support tools. In this role you will apply your active inpatient expertise to review, annotate, and evaluate hospital clinical documentation, directly shaping the accuracy, safety, and clinical usefulness of medical AI systems.

This role is designed for physicians with a current inpatient practice who write and read hospital documentation as part of their regular work.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Documentation Review

• Review inpatient documentation — H&Ps, daily progress notes, and discharge summaries — for accuracy, completeness, and clinical soundness

• Evaluate AI-generated inpatient notes and summaries against what a practicing hospitalist would actually document

Annotation & Structured Feedback

• Annotate inpatient encounter data against detailed guidelines

• Flag omissions, hallucinations, clinical inaccuracies, and documentation gaps in AI-generated output

• Provide structured, written feedback that engineering and product teams can act on

Knowledge Contribution

• Contribute expert input on annotation guidelines, documentation standards, and edge-case definitions

• Raise clarifying questions where guidance is ambiguous and help refine the guidelines

Required Qualifications

• MD — hospitalist or internal medicine — with 2+ years post-residency and a current inpatient practice

• US-based

• Hands-on experience writing and reading at least one of the following: H&Ps, progress notes, discharge summaries

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience post-residency

• Familiarity with Epic

• Prior AI/ML annotation or model evaluation work experience, with strong performance reviews

Work Arrangement

• Remote, part-time

• Flexible scheduling, designed around an active clinical practice

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.