Senior Clinical Specialist, AI Systems

Company Overview

Function Health is the AI operating system for health designed to empower people to live 100 healthy years. We are redefining how individuals understand measure and improve their health by moving beyond the limitations of traditional care and enabling comprehensive continuous insight into human biology. Function has been recognized as one of Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies of 2024 and is venture-backed by Redpoint and other leading venture firms. Over half a million members have joined Function to take control of their health.

Through comprehensive lab testing MRI and CT imaging longitudinal data and guidance from AI and clinical teams Function gives members a complete and continuous view of their health and the clarity to act on it. Through acquisitions across imaging mobile phlebotomy and supplement tracking and optimization Function is building an integrated health platform that spans the full path from testing to health clarity to daily action.

Function recently announced a $298M Series B and is entering its next chapter of growth. As we scale the quality and durability of our People systems data and insights will directly shape our ability to attract retain and support exceptional talent.

We are growing our team and seeking out world-class talent that deeply believes in our mission to positively impact global health has a relentless bias toward action and a growth mindset. Function fosters a collaborative and dynamic environment where every day we build the future.

Role

We are seeking a deeply experienced clinician to join our Clinical Product team as a Senior Clinical Specialist AI Systems .

You will work with our product engineering and clinical teams to ensure the outputs of our AI systems that reach our members are clinically correct clinically useful and safe. The Clinical Product team is embedded in product development from kickoff. We own the clinical quality bar for surfaces like the Action Plan the Clinician Note Health Journeys and member-facing AI chat. What this role contributes above all is clinical judgment applied to complex clinical scenarios and the ability to translate your findings to diverse cross-functional audiences. You will be contributing both upstream and downstream of our AI efforts. Upstream you will be involved in supporting the design of monitoring and evaluation systems for our AI products. Downstream you will be evaluating clinical outputs that incorporate highly diverse data points like blood biomarkers wearables omics imaging and gut microbiome. You will be inspecting what our AI systems produced to spot inaccuracies omissions and any harmful content. While hands-on experience in clinical AI is highly advantageous but not mandatory a desire to learn how AI systems work is essential. The ideal candidate is comfortable working through ambiguity meticulous in their attention to detail self-motivated resourceful and capable of thriving in a fast-paced environment. As an early member of this team your contributions will play a critical role in shaping the future of our member experience as we scale from hundreds of thousands of members to millions.

This role is best suited for those energized by fast-paced environments excited to build in a high-growth setting and deeply motivated by our mission at Function. If youre looking for meaningful challenges dynamic work and the opportunity to make a real impact wed love to meet you.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the embedded clinical partner to a product pod liaising between clinical product and engineering. You will bring systems-based root-cause medicine principles into our product.
• Establish deep partnership with Engineering to design and run evaluations of our AI systems. Define what clinically meaningful output looks like set quality thresholds and help define rubrics and cases to stress-test our systems to ensure they meet our quality bar.
• Help translate clinical reasoning into technical specifications from prompts to context engineering to clinical logic partnering with engineers to identify where and how clinical expertise must be embedded in AI systems.
• Own the clinical quality bar end-to-end for one or more AI product areas from clinical requirements at kickoff through launch validation and ongoing monitoring.
• Flag when product behavior must evolve as evidence guidelines or the clinical standard of care shift.

Qualifications & Required Skills

• MD DO or equivalent clinical doctorate with hands-on clinical practice and expertise in functional medicine. You have carried real clinical responsibility for real patients.
• You have deep expertise in one or more clinical domains and you have an understanding of the systems medicine approach to health. You are someone who goes beyond symptoms and diagnostic codes always striving to identify root causes of clinical imbalances in your patients and understand the multi-dimensional nature of health.
• You can apply strong clinical reasoning under timeline pressure and over long dense tasks. You can separate what is established what is plausible and what is speculative and educate the team appropriately on each.
• You are genuinely curious about how AI systems work and have a demonstrated ability to pick up technical craft quickly. Prior experience with LLMs evaluation or machine learning is not required the willingness to learn it here and the rigor to hold it to a clinical standard is.
• You have exceptional communication skills. You have the ability to adapt clinical information for very different audiences engineers PMs designers and members.
• A track record of owning something end-to-end in a cross-functional setting and driving it to completion.
• You are comfortable with ambiguous and complex tasks can operate autonomously under uncertainty on 0-to-1 projects but know when to ask for support from the team.

Nice to have items:

• You have experience interpreting complex blood biomarkers advanced imaging genomics gut microbiome and wearable data.
• Any prior exposure to clinical AI products LLM evaluation or prompt and context engineering a strong plus but explicitly not a requirement; what matters is your curiosity and willingness to learn. We have exceptional internal training opportunities.
• Background in longevity functional or root-cause medicine.
• Prior early-stage or high-growth startup experience.

Your dedication to these responsibilities will directly contribute to the success of our platform and the satisfaction of our members. We are looking for a proactive skilled and forward-thinking individual to join our team and help shape the future of our services.

To be a strong fit you embody our Core Values

• Ruthless Prioritization:
  • We dont let perfect get in the way of progress.
  • We move quickly to drive value not perfection.
  • We prioritize what drives impact.
  • We never compromise on standards of excellence.
• Member-First Always:
  • We design and deliver like were caring for someone we love.
  • We create calendar actionable human experience.
  • We prioritize responsiveness peace of mind and outcomes.
  • We empower members with truth clarity and care.
• One Team Moving Fast:
  • We are aligned in purpose prioritization and speed.
  • We gather diverse perspectives to make informed decisions.
  • We clear paths for each other and move fast together.
  • We communicate clearly and respectfully rallying around shared goals.
• Radical Ownership Relentless Execution:
  • We dont just ship we own outcomes and drive results.
  • We act with urgency and precision
  • We anticipate initiate and follow through.
  • We meet challenges with grit and pragmatism.
  • We embrace new tech to deliver better outcomes.
• Mission Over Ego:
  • We are ruthlessly aligned to our mission - and leave ego at the door.
  • We disagree and commit.
  • We dont tolerate politics or withholding information.
  • We operate with honesty transparency and respect.
• Sustained Integrity in Every Detail:
  • We earn trust by obsessing over accuracy quality and clarity in everything we do.
  • We prioritize clinical precision - data must be right.
  • We sweat the details because outcomes depend on them.

Why Youll Love Working With Us

We value our team at Function and offer a competitive salary and benefits package flexible working hours and a dynamic work environment where creativity and innovation are encouraged. If you are a highly motivated and experienced individual who is passionate about using technology to improve peoples lives we would love to hear from you.

At Function we celebrate diversity and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an equal opportunity employer we do not discriminate on the basis of race color gender identity ancestry religion age sexual orientation national origin disability marital status Veteran status or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria.

Join the Function Health team and become a part of our mission to build a healthier future for all. Discover more about us and how were changing the face of healthcare at Function Health .

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