Physician AI Researcher

Pharos is an early-stage startup dedicated to improving patient safety in hospitals through advanced AI-powered reporting and analytics. Our mission is to make healthcare safer by automating hospital quality reporting and helping staff identify and prevent the root causes of avoidable harm. Our vision is an AI system reviewing every chart at scale, identifying patterns and giving clinicians the insights they need to prevent the 100k avoidable deaths that occur in U.S. hospitals every year.

This is a pivotal role as a founding member of the clinical AI research team at Pharos. As a Physician AI Researcher, you will bridge the critical gap between clinical expertise and AI development, ensuring our technology is both technically sophisticated and clinically sound. You will work in close partnership with the engineering team, bringing essential clinical perspective to every stage of product development.

The scope of this role is intentionally broad - you will be an integral part of the founding team, working at the intersection of clinical medicine, AI research, and product development. You'll be defining clinical requirements, curating datasets, developing and evaluating AI models, validating outputs for clinical accuracy, and helping translate complex medical knowledge into systems that work in real-world hospital settings. Your work will directly contribute to Pharos's core mission: improving patient safety and ultimately saving lives by making healthcare safer.

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• High agency: You’re excited by the opportunity to take ambiguous clinical and technical challenges, and drive them from idea to execution without waiting for direction.

• Motivated by impact: You’re energized to work hard as part of a high-performing team - holding a meaningful equity stake in a company with the real potential to save thousands of lives.

• Ownership mindset: You take pride in acting like an owner, taking full responsibility for the quality and outcomes of your work.

• Comfortable with ambiguity: You thrive in an early-stage startup environment where there’s no rigid hierarchy, everyone wears many hats, and you have real power to influence the path of the company.
  

• San Francisco, USA.

• We expect our core team to be in the office most working days.