Healthcare Expert (MD, DO, RN, NP, PA, MPH)
Mercor • Remote
Education
Any
Type
hourly
Pay Rate (by country)
$150–$190/hr
Listed
205d ago
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About this Role
From the Mercor listing
Fluent Language Skills Required: English
**Blended rate to support multiple geographies
- Write and refine prompts to guide model behavior in healthcare scenarios
- Evaluate LLM-generated responses to healthcare-related queries for accuracy, reasoning, clarity, and completeness
- Conduct fact-checking of all medical and healthcare claims using trusted public sources and authoritative references
- Annotate model responses by identifying strengths, areas of improvement, and factual or conceptual inaccuracies
- Assess tone, completeness, and appropriateness of responses for real-world healthcare use
- Ensure model responses align with expected conversational behavior and system guidelines
- Apply consistent evaluation standards by following clear taxonomies, benchmarks, and detailed evaluation guidelines
- You have a minimum of 5 years of real-world professional experience in Healthcare, supported by an associated expert degree (e.g., MD, DO, RN, NP, PA, PharmD, MPH, or equivalent)
- You have experience in one or more of the following sub-domains:
- General Clinical Care
- Specialty Medicine or Surgery
- Diagnostics, Imaging & Laboratory Medicine
- Public Health, Healthcare Systems & Administration
- You have significant experience using large language models (LLMs) and understand how and why people use them
- You have excellent writing communication skills for complex medical topics
- You have strong attention to detail and are comfortable evaluating clinical reasoning and medical explanations, identifying subtle inaccuracies or gaps that others may overlook
- Prior experience with RLHF, model evaluation, or data annotation work
- Experience writing or editing high-quality medical or healthcare-related content
- Experience in clinical documentation, charting, or patient communication, including explaining medical information to non-clinical audiences
- Familiarity with evaluation rubrics, benchmarks, or quality scoring systems
- You identify medical inaccuracies, unclear explanations, or unsafe reasoning patterns
- Your feedback improves the clarity and reliability of healthcare-related AI responses
- You deliver reproducible evaluation artifacts that strengthen model performance
- Mercor customers trust their AI systems in healthcare contexts because you’ve rigorously evaluated them
Requirements
- Must be eligible to work in Remote
- Fluent proficiency in English (Written & Verbal)
- Reliable high-speed internet connection
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
- Demonstrated expertise in Healthcare
- Valid professional license (MD, DO, RN, etc.)
- Current knowledge of medical standards and practices
Why This Role
Shape the "brain" of future AI. By working as a Healthcare Expert (MD, DO, RN, NP, PA, MPH), you ensure that future models understand the nuance of your field. At $170/hr, it's a lucrative way to preserve the integrity of your profession in the digital age.
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What does Healthcare work look like for a Healthcare Expert (MD, DO, RN, NP, PA, MPH)?
Tasks here are scoped to Healthcare, not generic labeling. As a Healthcare Expert (MD, DO, RN, NP, PA, MPH), expect to draw on real domain judgment (evaluating outputs, correcting errors, or providing expert reasoning specific to Healthcare) rather than following a one-size-fits-all rubric. If you don't have hands-on Healthcare background, this is likely not the right listing to start with.
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