Location

Remote available (U.S. Only)

Employment Type

Contract

Location Type

Remote

Department

ResearchScience Research

Compensation

• $200 – $400 per hour

About us

Edison Scientific builds and deploys AI scientist agents to accelerate science and the development of new medicines. We are an ambitious team run by scientists and engineers from leading institutions across biology, physics, chemistry, and AI.

The Opportunity
We are seeking a Consulting Medical Director to help shape the future of how this work gets done. We want to make our tools better at the things you are an expert at, so that they can be deployed to amplify and accelerate the productivity of people like you.

We engage with domain experts to help design and build these tasks, and help us know what we don’t know. Day to day that might look like any or all of the following sorts of activities (and more):

• Knowledge sharing about "day-in-the-life" as an expert working with data in these domains to assemble regulatory submissions.

• Describing common tasks or problems where AI could be of value in your workflows.

• Identify + describe internal pharma systems that are commonly used for standard workflows.

• Generate or review reference ground-truth artifacts to evaluate against - reports, data files, modules, etc.

• Identify + add realistic sources of variance or data corruption in study data.

• Identify and correct discrepancies in data quality.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience within the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry, ideally with a sponsor.

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) required. Board certification preferred.

• Experience within Oncology therapeutic area is preferred.

• Experience leading or significantly contributing to clinical study protocol design, including endpoint selection and study design rationale.

• Strong working knowledge of clinical trial methodology across Phase I–IV studies.

• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with biostatistics, clinical operations, regulatory affairs, and data management teams.

• Experience serving as Medical Monitor, including safety oversight and clinical data review.

• Experience with protocol amendments and lifecycle management of clinical trial documents.

Why join us?

• Remote/US based

• Flexible hours / flexible time zone - 5-20 hours per week; Ad Hoc project-based

  
  

Note: For consulting opportunities, we do not offer benefits.

Why join us?

We're a fast-moving, mission-driven culture where smart people do their best work and actually enjoy doing it. We also offer full-time employees the following:

• Competitive salary and equity

• Full healthcare coverage; we pay 100% of premiums for you and your dependents

• Support for growing families, including a yearly new parent stipend and fertility coverage through Carrot

• Mental health support through Rula, our in-network therapist and psychiatrist network with fast availability

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for maternity, paternity, and adoption

• Pet care support with a yearly employer-funded stipend for your animal companions

• Commuter benefits so you can pay for transit and parking with pre-tax dollars

• 401(k) company matching

• $300 health and wellness benefit quarterly

• Lunch is on us every day you're in the office, and dinner is on us when you're working late

• Regular team off-sites and company events

Edison Scientific is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.