Clinical Specialist, Health Optimization

Google Google · Big Tech · New York, NY +1

This role focuses on embedding clinical and human context into the early stages of AI development for health optimization, supporting research programs and products. The specialist will contribute clinical and methodological expertise, collaborate with cross-functional teams, support data pipelines, pinpoint technical interventions in the model development lifecycle, and evaluate AI model performance across diverse populations using machine learning, social science, and public health principles. The role requires a doctoral degree in a clinical field, experience in patient care, integrating social sciences into technology, and evaluating AI products.

What you'd actually do

  1. Contribute clinical and methodological expertise using AI, research, and product expertise to shape product and research roadmaps across Google.
  2. Collaborate effectively with research, engineering, product, and UX teams to guide the integration of human context, including social and structural factors into GenAI model development, evaluation, and product design.
  3. Support the development of robust data pipelines to manage the end-to-end life-cycle of complex health datasets, ensuring curation and analysis are grounded in human context to drive meaningful insights.
  4. Pinpoint and implement technical interventions at critical junctures of the model development life-cycle, from pre-training dataset curation to product deployment to ensure effective and impactful health AI solutions.
  5. Apply comprehensive knowledge to execute methodologies for evaluating AI model performance across various populations, combining machine learning, social science, and public health principles to build scaled approaches to health AI.

Skills

Required

  • Doctoral degree in a clinical field (e.g., MD, DO, MBBS, PharmD, DNP, PsyD, PhD)
  • 2 years of experience in patient care
  • 1 year experience applying frameworks that integrate social sciences, human context, or public health principles into technology development
  • 1 year experience with evaluation of AI product or digital health product development
  • Clinical and methodological expertise
  • AI expertise
  • Research and product expertise
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Data pipeline development
  • AI model evaluation methodologies
  • Machine learning
  • Social science principles
  • Public health principles

Nice to have

  • Advanced computational degree (e.g., PhD, MPH, MS) with applied experience in health
  • Experience in clinical practice in global settings or treating patients across the lifecourse
  • Computational skills in AI/ML applied to health
  • Methods for evaluating and mitigating AI model performance
  • Disaggregated evaluation and benchmarking
  • Background in medical anthropology, sociology, ecological systems, or other sociobehavioral sciences
  • Demonstrated track record of health-related publications or contributions to AI/ML products in the health domain

What the JD emphasized

  • clinical expertise
  • AI expertise
  • health AI research
  • evaluation of AI models
  • human context

Other signals

  • clinical expertise
  • GenAI solutions
  • health AI research
  • AI model evaluation
  • human context in AI development