Clinical Data Annotation Lead
$152k/y-$218k/y
Intuitive18 hours ago
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Summary
Intuitive is seeking a Clinical Data Annotation Lead to join their team in San Carlos, CA. The role involves overseeing biopsy and pathology image annotation, managing teams, and ensuring quality and scalability of labeled datasets.
About the Role
As a Clinical Data Annotation Lead, you will be responsible for recruiting, training, and managing annotation teams, developing scalable annotation pipelines, establishing QA/QC processes, partnering with machine learning scientists, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. You will also define long-term strategies for annotation operations and track annotation throughput and quality.
About You
Required:
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Biology, or related field (PhD a plus).
- 3+ years of experience in data operations, clinical data management, or annotation workflows, ideally in medical imaging or pathology.
- Proven experience leading and scaling annotation or labeling operations.
- Demonstrated success in managing cross-functional teams, vendors, or distributed annotators.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills with attention to detail.
- Experience with annotation tools/platforms and data labeling standards.
- Strong analytical skills and creative mindset.
- Works well in a small, agile team.
Preferred:
- Prior experience in medical imaging annotation, pathology ML, digital pathology.
- Familiarity with ML/AI workflows, including supervised learning and dataset curation.
- Experience with regulatory frameworks for medical data (FDA, CE, HIPAA).
- Knowledge of multimodal datasets (e.g., imaging + clinical or molecular data).
- Track record of building teams, processes, and infrastructure from the ground up.
Benefits
- Market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity.
- Opportunity to contribute to innovative healthcare solutions.
Intuitive
Intuitive (Nasdaq: ISRG), headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., is a global technology leader in minimally invasive care and the pioneer of robotic-assisted surgery. At Intuitive, we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.
San Carlos, CA