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Director, Clinical AI Research & Evaluation

US - Cambridge Kendall SQ - MAFull-time2026-10-22 → 2026-11-11
On-site

Core

Lead the scientific foundation for evaluating clinical AI systems to ensure they are trustworthy, measurable, and ready for regulated practice in clinical development.

Role type

Director, Clinical AI Research & Evaluation (Research Leadership with Delivery Accountability)

Builds

Evaluation harnesses, benchmark construction, failure mode taxonomies, red-team protocols, and monitoring strategies for agentic systems.

Domain

Life Sciences / Clinical Development / AI Evaluation / Human Factors

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

AI/ML evaluation methodology, human-computer interaction, statistical inference, Python, SQL, LLM evaluation, team leadership, experimental design

Preferred skills

Clinical trial conduct, GxP compliance, prospective validation studies, causal inference, weak supervision

Technologies

Python, SQL, LLM evaluation platforms, LLMOps/MLOps

Responsibilities

Define scientific methodology for AI evaluation, design evaluation frameworks for regulated deployment, lead hands-on failure analysis, advise on go/no-go decisions, create reusable evaluation standards.

Seniority

Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical execution