Physicians

Opportunity Overview

Handshake is looking for 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 acute care, medicine, and surgery to evaluate AI-generated content and provide feedback that helps AI reason like a practicing 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 clinical workflows such as diagnosis, differential reasoning, imaging and test interpretation, treatment planning, and procedural decision-making
• Review and evaluate AI-generated responses for clinical accuracy, patient safety, and alignment with current medical 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: Completed MD, DO, or equivalent medical degree
• Clinical training: Completed or currently enrolled in a residency or fellowship, or board certified or board eligible, in one of the specialties below
• Specialty depth: Working knowledge in one or more of the following areas:

  • Acute care and medicine:

    • Stroke and vascular neurology

    • Critical care (medical, surgical, or trauma ICU)
    • Emergency medicine, including point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS)
    • Cardiology: interventional (cath) and echocardiography
    • Radiation oncology (contouring)
    • Infectious disease
    • OB/GYN and maternal-fetal medicine (obstetric ultrasound)
    • Ophthalmology: retina or glaucoma (OCT)
  • Surgery:

    • General surgery

    • Orthopedic trauma surgery (wrist, ankle, and hip fractures) and adult arthroplasty
    • Oral and maxillofacial or craniofacial trauma surgery

Additional qualifications (not required, but strengthen your application)

• Experience across multiple specialties or care settings, or with electronic health records, point-of-care imaging, and clinical decision support tools
• Experience at an academic medical center or teaching hospital, 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 medical concepts clearly
• Do not share patient health information or identifiable patient data
• Ability to work independently in a remote, asynchronous environment