Principal Clinical Scientist
What if your deep expertise in clinical trial design and regulatory science could directly shape how AI understands and reasons about clinical evidence?
We're looking for a Principal Clinical Scientist to bring senior-level rigor to cutting-edge AI research workflows. You'll work alongside world-leading AI labs to ensure that clinical data used to train and evaluate advanced AI systems meets the exacting standards expected in real-world regulatory submissions — FDA, EMA, and beyond.
This is a fully remote, flexible contract role built for experienced clinical scientists who want to apply their expertise in a high-impact, forward-looking environment.
- Organization: Alignerr
- Type: Hourly Contract
- Location: Remote
- Commitment: 10–40 hours/week
What You'll Do
- Design and review clinical trial protocols used to generate high-quality, regulator-ready datasets for AI training and evaluation
- Interpret and audit clinical trial results to ensure accuracy, consistency, and alignment with regulatory standards
- Evaluate AI-generated clinical analyses for scientific soundness and regulatory relevance
- Provide expert, structured feedback that directly improves how AI models reason about clinical trial data, outcomes, and evidence
- Help establish the quality bar for clinical content used across frontier AI research projects
Who You Are
- Senior clinical scientist with hands-on experience designing clinical trial protocols intended for regulatory submission
- Deep expertise interpreting clinical data for agencies such as the FDA, EMA, or equivalent bodies
- Strong grounding in clinical research methodology, biostatistics, translational science, or a closely related discipline
- Naturally rigorous and detail-oriented — you hold clinical data to the highest standards
- Comfortable working independently and delivering structured, high-quality feedback in a remote environment
Nice to Have
- Prior experience with data annotation, data quality frameworks, or AI evaluation systems
- Background in pharmacology, oncology, rare disease, or other specialized therapeutic areas
- Familiarity with AI tools or content evaluation platforms
Why Join Us
- Work directly on frontier AI systems making a real impact on clinical and biomedical research
- Influence how AI understands, evaluates, and communicates real-world clinical evidence at scale
- Fully remote and flexible — work when and where it suits you
- Freelance autonomy with the structure of meaningful, expert-level project work
- Collaborate with leading AI research teams on some of the most ambitious AI projects in existence
- Potential for ongoing work and contract extension as new projects launch
Apply now