At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development of clinical AI evaluation standards and manage expert clinicians.
- Company: Join a pioneering company shaping the future of medical AI.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, equity, fully remote work, and autonomy in your role.
- Other info: Opportunity to shape a new category in a dynamic, early-stage environment.
- Why this job: Be a founding member driving impactful change in medical AI evaluation.
- Qualifications: Clinical experience with a focus on medical AI and strong communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.
The opportunity MAKZ builds consultant-authored evaluation data for frontier medical AI — the hard, ambiguous, multi-morbid clinical cases that reveal where the world's most advanced models still fail under real clinical uncertainty, graded criterion-by-criterion against expert rubrics. The frontier labs have saturated the easy medical benchmarks; the unsolved problem is reasoning and safety in the specialist tail, and that's the problem we exist to measure.
We're looking for a Founding Medical Lead to help build this from the ground floor — someone who can sit credibly in a room with both a senior clinician and a frontier-lab researcher, and translate fluently between them. This is a rare chance to shape a company, a methodology, and a category at the moment it's forming.
What you'll do:
- Set the clinical and methodological standard for how MAKZ builds and grades evaluation data — owning rubric design, quality, and the bar for what 'expert-grade' means.
- Lead and grow our bench of consultant-level clinicians: recruiting, calibrating, and managing the medical experts who author and reconcile cases.
- Partner directly with the technical and research contacts at frontier labs and clinical-AI companies — holding the clinical and the evaluation-methodology conversation at a level they respect.
- Shape the product and the pitch: turning deep clinical and eval insight into how MAKZ is positioned, sold, and trusted.
- Act as a founding voice in the company's direction, not just its clinical work.
Who you are:
- A clinician with genuine clinical credibility.
- Deeply engaged with medical AI: ideally hands-on experience in post-training, evaluation, or clinical-reasoning dataset work, whether at a frontier lab, a clinical-AI company, or a specialist data/eval provider.
- Direct frontier-lab experience is highly prized; demonstrable depth in medical AI evaluation matters most.
- Fluent across the clinical–technical divide: you can discuss rubric design, RLHF/eval methodology, and model failure modes with researchers, and clinical reasoning with consultants, without losing either audience.
- Well-connected, or able to build connections quickly, within the medical-AI and frontier-lab ecosystem.
- Energised by early-stage ambiguity — someone who wants to build the function, not inherit it.
Why this role:
- A genuine founding seat: real ownership of a category at the moment it's being defined.
- Work at the actual frontier of medical AI — the problems the leading labs are still trying to solve.
- A mission that matters: better, safer AI in medicine, measured to a standard the field doesn't yet have.
- Competitive package including salary and meaningful equity as a founding team member.
- Fully remote, with the autonomy to shape how the role and the company grow.
To apply: send your CV and you will be contacted within 48 hours if shortlisted.
Founding Medical Lead — Clinical AI Evaluation in Nottingham employer: MAKZ
MAKZ offers an exceptional opportunity for the Founding Medical Lead to shape the future of clinical AI evaluation from the ground up. With a focus on meaningful work that directly impacts patient safety and AI efficacy, employees benefit from a competitive package, including equity, and the flexibility of a fully remote role. The collaborative culture fosters growth and innovation, making it an ideal environment for those passionate about advancing medical AI in a pioneering setting.
