About this roleClinical AI is only worth deploying if someone can demonstrate that it works. Our agents have supported millions of patient encounters, which means we're held to a clinical standard and trust is earned from clinicians, regulators, and academic reviewers. As Head of Research, you'll own that case.
You'll build Amigo's research function from the ground up: hiring researchers, setting the agenda alongside our CTO, and owning how our systems are evaluated. That includes benchmarks, patient simulation, diagnostic reasoning evaluation, and the studies that show a clinical agent behaves appropriately in the settings where it is actually deployed. You'll also own how this work reaches the outside world through publications, academic collaborations, and the regulatory and policy conversations that follow.
Research sits unusually close to the product here. We deploy into live health systems, so findings are expected to change what we ship and the standards you set determine what's allowed in front of patients. You'll work directly with the clinicians on our team so the research reflects how medicine is practiced, not just how it appears in a dataset.
This role blends scientific leadership with organizational judgment. You'll be building a function, not joining one, while representing Amigo's technical credibility externally. The ideal candidate brings deep research expertise, the operational discipline to run programs to completion (and stop them when appropriate), and the communication skills to make rigorous work legible to clinical and regulatory audiences.
What you'll do- Build and lead the research team by hiring researchers and setting the research agenda with our CTO
- Own how we evaluate clinical agents, including benchmarks, patient simulation, diagnostic reasoning evaluation, and the standards a system must meet before it reaches a patient
- Design and run studies that hold up to clinical scrutiny, and decide which programs continue and which should stop
- Publish, and turn our existing academic partnerships into substantive collaborations rather than logos
- Represent Amigo's research externally to clinicians, regulators, academic partners, and the wider research community
- Own how we describe what our systems can and cannot do, including limitations, with the judgment that regulated communication requires
- Work directly with the clinicians on our team so evaluation reflects real clinical practice
- Translate findings into product decisions, working with engineering and the deployment teams so research changes what we ship
What we're looking for- A track record of running research programs-not just contributing to them. You have owned scope, people, timelines, and the decision to stop
- A background in AI for health at a research lab or an equivalent setting. Work on systems like Google DeepMind's AMIE, or leading health research efforts at a major lab, is the shape we have in mind
- A public record of rigorous work: publications, evaluation studies, benchmarks, or systems other researchers use
- Fluency in clinical evaluation, including study design, what counts as evidence in medicine, and why a benchmark result is not a clinical claim
- Experience hiring and developing researchers, and building the practices a research function runs on
- Comfort in policy and regulatory conversations, and the judgment to communicate limitations clearly
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to make technical work credible to clinical and non-technical audiences
- A strong sense of ownership, and the willingness to build the function rather than inherit it
Nice to have- Clinical training. Practising or former clinicians who moved into research are very welcome
- Experience with regulatory submissions, clinical trials, or evidence generation for a regulated product
- Experience evaluating agentic or multi-step LLM systems rather than single-turn models
- Existing relationships across academic medicine or health policy
Benefits (available to Full-Time Employees)Health & Wellness- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Daily catered lunch and dinner
- Mental health support and wellness coaching
- Flexible wellness stipend for fitness, therapy, or personal growth
Growth & Development- Annual learning budget for courses, books, or conferences
- Conference attendance budget for professional development
- Annual team offsite
- Academic collaboration opportunities
- Unlimited PTO
