Radiologist AI Trainer

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco our investors include Benchmark General Catalyst Peter Thiel Adam DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Radiologist (MD) Medical Imaging AI Annotation & Evaluation
Type: Contract
Compensation: $200$400/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 15 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated reads against clinical standards identifying hallucinated findings and unsupported certainty.
• Develop structured finding labels by reading studies and annotating discrete findings such as presence location and severity.
• Author reference reports to establish ground truth for AI model evaluation.
• Interpret imaging-based clinical cases documenting diagnostic reasoning step by step.
• Create grading criteria and guidelines to differentiate excellent reads from acceptable ones.
• Construct difficult-case questions to challenge and improve AI model reasoning.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• MD or DO with completed diagnostic radiology residency.
• Board certification or board-eligible with residency complete.
• Active unrestricted medical license in your country of practice.
• 2 years post-residency reading independently.
• High-volume independent reads experience.
• Command of structured reporting standards (BI-RADS LI-RADS Lung-RADS TI-RADS).
• Written and spoken English fluency.
• Minimum 15 hours per week availability.

Preferred

• Fellowship subspecialty training in neuroradiology musculoskeletal body/abdominal chest breast or pediatric imaging.
• U.S. licensure and board certification.
• Experience in medical image annotation AI evaluation or dataset curation.
• Teaching rubric design or resident assessment experience.
• Published research or sustained technical writing (please link a sample).

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

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