AI training jobs for doctors: what medical AI work involves

The short answer

AI labs pay doctors, nurses and clinicians to test and improve what their models say about their field. There are 37 such roles open on Tier1 right now. The median rate is $75 an hour, half of them pay between $64 and $141, and the best paid offers $270. The work is remote and usually part-time, designed to sit alongside a full-time job.

What medical AI projects ask you to do

• Grading clinical answers. You read how a model answers a clinical question and score it: is it correct, is it current practice, would it harm a patient who acted on it.
• Writing the answer a good clinician would give. A reference answer, with the reasoning, that the model is trained and measured against.
• Writing hard cases. Vignettes from your specialty that current models get wrong, with the correct management and why.
• Reviewing documentation and images. Some projects check how models write clinical notes or read images in a specialty such as dermatology or radiology.
• Safety review. Finding where a model gives advice it should not, from dosing to when to send someone to an emergency department.

Who gets hired

Most roles ask for a medical degree (MD, DO or the equivalent) and often a specialty, and some ask for active licensure or board certification. Others hire nurses, pharmacists, dietitians or medical coders for their own kind of judgement. Medical students and residents are hired for some evaluation work, and the role says so when they are.

How to stand out

1. Name your specialty and setting. "Hospitalist, 6 years, academic centre" matches you to projects far better than "physician".
2. State your licences and where they are valid. They decide eligibility more than anything else.
3. Show that you explain clearly in writing. Teaching, guidelines work and publications all count.
4. Expect a test case. Many platforms screen with a short clinical assessment. Answer it as you would for a colleague.

Unsure what the work is like day to day? Start with what AI training work is.

Working from outside the US

Of the 37 roles open now, 4 are open worldwide and 11 hire in the US only. The countries these roles name most often are United States. Roles that need a language besides English most often ask for Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Cantonese) and Tagalog. The guide to working from outside the US covers the rest.

Current roles

Every open role is on its field page, with its rate, hours and the countries it hires in, updated every hour. To see how the pay compares with other fields, read how much AI trainers make.