At Microsoft AI, our health team is on a mission to help millions of users better understand and proactively manage their health and wellbeing. We’re responsible for ensuring that Microsoft AI’s models and services are useful, trusted and safe across diverse customer health journeys. 

For this role the Microsoft Health AI team is looking for a Clinical Specialist to work closely with our evolving cross-functional teams to build and carefully evaluate AI systems, while advocating for the voice of the patient, clinicians and wider healthcare systems. 

Across all our hires, it’s important for colleagues to share our enthusiasm about the role of technology and AI in health and healthcare, but also appreciate the challenges and risks of delivering effective solutions in a complex and safety critical space. By design, we will remain a lean team (albeit within a much larger organization), and as such you will need to be action orientated, self-sufficient and actively help to cultivate and promote a positive team culture.

 
Microsoft’s wider mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

As an early employee in the Microsoft Health AI team you will be someone who: 

• Independently works to develop, evaluate, deploy and iterate generative AI systems in healthcare. 
• Collaborates with and bridges the gap between clinicians, researchers, product, engineering, and partnership teams. 
• Nurtures and grows multiple collaborative relationships with product or business group leaders inside or outside Microsoft and provides expertise or technology to create business impact. 
• Reviews business and product requirements, and incorporates state-of-the-art research occurring at Microsoft and the academic field to formulate plans that will meet business goals. 
• Performs documentation of work in progress, experimentation results, plans, etc.  
• Contributes to safety, ethics, and privacy policies. 
• Serves as an expert within team on changes in industry/market trends, products, industry advances, and opportunities in applied technologies across a broad range of applied research areas. 
• Identifies gaps and determines which tools, technologies, and methods to incorporate to ensure quality and scientific rigor. 
• Proactively provides mentorship and coaching to less experienced and mid-level team members. 

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications: 

• Medical Degree with associated postgraduate clinical experience. 
• Extensive experience of conducting research in the health AI space. 
• Track record of high impact academic publications. 

Additional or preferred qualifications: 

• Higher degree (e.g. Masters or PhD) in related field. 
• Experience working in the generative AI health research space (in academic or industry settings), including developing, evaluating, and deploying AI systems in a healthcare setting. 
• Experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker. 
• Ability to produce high quality written and presentation materials with excellent attention to detail. 
• Solid collaboration, communication and presentation skills. 
• Work at high speed with autonomy in a rapidly changing environment. 
• Relish ambiguity/uncertainty. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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