Healthcare Expert

Healthcare Expert

North Star Staffing is seeking a Healthcare Expert to join our client, a leading AI research organization. This hourly contract role focuses on evaluating and refining advanced conversational AI systems used in healthcare and medical contexts. The primary goal is to ensure AI responses to clinical and health-related questions are accurate, clear, safe, and aligned with real-world healthcare standards.

Role Overview

As a Healthcare Expert, you will play a crucial role in improving AI systems designed for healthcare applications. Your work will involve assessing AI-generated content for clinical accuracy, safety, and appropriateness, directly contributing to the reliability and effectiveness of cutting-edge AI in medicine.

Key Responsibilities

• Write and refine prompts that guide AI behavior in healthcare and medical scenarios.
• Evaluate AI-generated responses to healthcare-related queries for accuracy, clarity, reasoning, and completeness.
• Verify all medical claims using trusted public sources and authoritative references.
• Annotate and score model outputs by identifying strengths, weaknesses, and factual or clinical inaccuracies.
• Assess tone, appropriateness, and completeness of responses for real-world healthcare communication.
• Ensure all outputs align with defined system guidelines and conversational standards.
• Apply standardized evaluation frameworks, taxonomies, and benchmarks consistently.

Required Qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional experience in healthcare.
• An advanced healthcare-related degree or credential (e.g., MD, DO, RN, NP, PA, PharmD, MPH, or equivalent).
• Expertise in one or more of the following areas: General clinical care, Specialty medicine or surgery, Diagnostics, imaging, or laboratory medicine, Public health, healthcare systems, or healthcare administration.
• Strong familiarity with large language models (LLMs) and how they are used in practice.
• Excellent written communication skills for complex medical topics.
• Exceptional attention to detail and ability to detect subtle clinical or factual errors.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with RLHF, AI evaluation, or data annotation.
• Background in medical writing, editing, or clinical documentation.
• Experience explaining medical information to non-clinical audiences.
• Familiarity with structured evaluation rubrics or quality scoring systems.

What Success Looks Like

• You consistently identify medical inaccuracies, unsafe reasoning, or unclear explanations.
• Your feedback improves the reliability, clarity, and safety of healthcare-related AI outputs.
• You deliver high-quality, reproducible evaluation data that strengthens AI model performance.

Contract & Payment Terms

• Independent contractor engagement.
• Fully remote with flexible scheduling.
• Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise.
• Project scope and duration may vary based on performance and client needs.
• No access to confidential or proprietary employer data is required.
• H1-B and STEM OPT sponsorship is not available.

Application Process

• Submit your resume for review.
• Selected candidates will complete a short healthcare-focused evaluation or screening form.

Key skills/competency

• Clinical Expertise
• AI Evaluation
• Medical Verification
• Healthcare Communication
• Prompt Engineering
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Attention to Detail
• Medical Writing
• Data Annotation
• Regulatory Compliance