Clinical Data Annotation Lead

About This Opportunity:

We are seeking a Clinical Data Annotation Lead to oversee all aspects of biopsy and pathology image annotation from managing distributed annotator teams to ensuring quality consistency and scalability of labeled datasets. This role is both strategic and operational: you will design workflows manage vendors and annotators collaborate with pathologists and partner with machine learning scientists to deliver gold-standard annotations at scale.  Ability to work in person at our San Carlos CA office is preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Recruit train and manage annotation teams (internal and external) including pathologists and other data annotators

• Develop and optimize scalable annotation pipelines

• Establish rigorous QA/QC processes to ensure annotation accuracy consistency and reproducibility across datasets

• Partner with ML scientists to align annotation strategies with model development needs

• Define requirements for annotation platforms work closely with product/engineering to improve annotation tooling

• Build systems to manage high-volume annotation projects across multiple disease areas and data modalities

• Ensure data handling labeling and storage meet regulatory and ethical standards (HIPAA GDPR FDA)

• Define long-term strategy for annotation operations including vendor partnerships automation opportunities and multimodal data integration

• Track and report annotation throughput quality and efficiency to leadership

Qualifications :

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Life Sciences Biomedical Engineering Computational Biology or related field (PhD a plus)

• 3 years of experience in data operations clinical data management or annotation workflows ideally in medical imaging or pathology

• Proven experience leading and scaling annotation or labeling operations

• Demonstrated success in managing cross-functional teams vendors or distributed annotators

• Excellent organizational and project management skills with attention to detail

• Experience with annotation tools/platforms and data labeling standards

• Strong analytical skills and creative mindset

• Works well in a small agile team

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience in medical imaging annotation pathology ML digital pathology

• Familiarity with ML/AI workflows including supervised learning and dataset curation

• Experience with regulatory frameworks for medical data (FDA CE HIPAA)

• Knowledge of multimodal datasets (e.g. imaging clinical or molecular data)

• Track record of building teams processes and infrastructure from the ground up

Additional Information :

Due to the nature of our business and the role please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin color age religion protected veteran or disability status genetic information or any other status protected under federal state or local applicable laws.

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We provide market-competitive compensation packages inclusive of base pay incentives benefits and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role as actual pay will be determined based on several factors including experience skills and qualifications. The target compensation ranges are listed.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time