Emergency Physician

Opportunity Overview

Handshake is looking for emergency physicians to support AI research through flexible, part-time contract work. This is not a traditional job. You’ll draw on your clinical training and hands-on experience in emergency medicine, including rapid triage, resuscitation, undifferentiated presentations, trauma, and point-of-care ultrasound, to evaluate AI-generated content and provide feedback that helps AI reason like a practicing emergency physician. The Handshake AI program runs year-round, with project opportunities opening periodically across different areas of expertise.

This is an ongoing, project-based opportunity you can take on alongside your current role.

What You’ll Do

• Use your clinical expertise to create expert-level tasks that today’s top AI models can’t solve, based on real emergency department workflows such as triage, differential diagnosis of undifferentiated patients, ECG and imaging interpretation, point-of-care ultrasound, resuscitation, procedural decision-making, and disposition planning
• Review and evaluate AI-generated responses for clinical accuracy, patient safety, and alignment with current emergency medicine practice and guidelines
• Provide clear, structured written feedback to help improve AI model performance
• Work remotely and complete tasks at your own pace, with no set schedule or minimum hour requirement

Qualifications

• Degree and clinical training:

  • Completed MD, DO, or equivalent medical degree

  • Completed residency training in emergency medicine
• Licensure: Currently licensed to practice medicine in the United States
• Clinical depth: Working knowledge in one or more of the following areas:

  • Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS)

  • Resuscitation and critical care in the emergency department
  • Trauma and injury management
  • Cardiovascular, neurologic, and stroke emergencies
  • Toxicology and overdose management
  • Pediatric emergency medicine
  • Procedural skills, such as airway management, central lines, and fracture reduction

Additional qualifications (not required, but strengthen your application)

• Board certification or board eligibility in emergency medicine, or fellowship training in a subspecialty such as critical care, ultrasound, toxicology, or EMS
• Experience at an academic medical center, teaching hospital, or Level I trauma center, peer-reviewed publications, or involvement in clinical research or AI-assisted medical tools

Required for all applicants

• Must have US work authorization
• Strong written communication and attention to detail
• Ability to explain complex emergency medicine concepts clearly
• Ability to work independently in a remote, asynchronous environment