Kinetic Systems is a healthcare AI research lab. We partner with frontier labs and healthcare organizations to help make AI models safer and more reliable.
We spun out of the Stanford PhD program in 2025 and are backed by General Catalyst, Conviction, and other great investors.
Our Clinical AI Research Fellowship is a selective program open to strong clinicians with an interest in shaping the future of AI in healthcare.
This opportunity is currently only for clinicians. You must meet the clinical criteria below to be considered.
This is a part-time, in-person (San Francisco) or remote (U.S only) role.
Duration: 3-6 months
Time commitment: Minimum 10 hours per week
Stipend: $1500 per week
Resources: API credits, GPU support, human data budgets, mentorship & access to evaluation infrastructure
The Role
As a Clinical AI Research Fellow, you’ll work closely with AI researchers, engineers, and clinicians to help improve healthcare AI for patients and providers.
If selected as a Fellow, you will have the opportunity to work with frontier AI labs, leading academic institutions, and pioneers in the medical field to help shape the future of AI in healthcare. You will be given first priority as new research and project opportunities arise.
Your insights will directly impact AI models used by hundreds of millions of patients and providers every day. The standards you set will define how providers across the globe leverage these technologies to drive better care outcomes for their patients.
In addition to working with frontier AI labs, you will have the opportunity to publish peer-reviewed academic research with our team and earn the ability to participate in future projects.
Benefits
Gain an unparalleled understanding of how AI will impact medicine and your career
Learn directly from AI PhD researchers
Co-author papers for peer-reviewed journals and ML conferences
Curated invitations to researcher events & gatherings
What You’ll Do
Develop novel tasks and benchmarks that reflect real-world healthcare workflows
Evaluate frontier models on complex clinical tasks, and critically analyze their failure modes
Design end-to-end experiments and propose novel research directions for assessing model capabilities
Partner with leading AI researchers to refine and iterate on your work
Participate in weekly check-ins and weekly group presentations
Who You Are
Medical student (4th year), Resident (PGY-2+), MD, DO, NP, PA, RN or PharmD
Experience working with sensitive healthcare data
Prior background working with RL environments, evals, rubrics is a plus, but not required
Why Us
Our company is founded on a decade of healthcare AI research conducted at Stanford University at the intersection of AI, benchmarking, and healthcare. Our team has published work in leading peer-reviewed venues including NEJM AI, Nature Medicine, JAMIA, NeurIPS, ICLR, and VLDB. See some of our team's prior work here: https://kineticsystems.ai/blog