Clinical AI Research Lead
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Job description
A senior individual contributor role at Heidi owning the innovation pipeline from problem identification through validated prototype, coordinating the clinical research programme and bridging product, regulation and evidence. The role combines clinical training, technical capability and research rigour to support medical device registration and clinical trial expansion.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Hybrid · United Kingdom
What you'll do
- Lead and support clinical trials and pilots adjacent to product development and regulation from protocol through analysis and dissemination
- Design evaluations with research/publication-grade rigour: statistical power, confounder control, reproducible methodology
- Provide analytical support company-wide - elevating ad hoc analysis to defensible evidence
- Translate evolving UK and international medical device regulation into actionable product and development constraints
- Generate and maintain technical documentation, clinical evaluation reports, and post-market surveillance artefacts - directly analytically supporting the regulatory team
- Partner with compliance to ensure regulatory soundness is built in, not bolted on
- Serve as the accessible regulatory resource for product, engineering, models and commercial teams: making regulation legible, usable and deeply embedded into all engineering practices
- Act as a senior research partner to product squads, commercial teams, and leadership, providing evidence, framing decisions, and raising analytical standards
- Support commercial requests with tender applications
What we're looking for
- Qualified clinician with active understanding of clinical workflow, risk, and patient safety
- Experience in medical device or clinical AI evaluation, including familiarity with MHRA, UKCA, and/or EU MDR frameworks
- Postgraduate research training in a relevant field (clinical informatics, AI/ML, health data science, or similar)
- Demonstrated ability to design, execute, and disseminate clinical or applied research independently
- Fluency in quantitative methods: statistical modelling, NLP evaluation, speech analytics, and performance benchmarking
- Skills in implementation science and translational projects involving new technologies
- Strong written communication, capable of producing high-quality documentation for clinical, regulatory, and commercial audiences
- Collaborative operator in a fast-moving environment; able to work across seniority levels and functions
- Experience managing small teams or contractors; structured, outcome-oriented
Benefits
- 25 days of paid time off per year
- 24/7 mental health, coaching and wellbeing support through Sonder
- €100/month Healthy Heidi's wellness stipend
- €500 home office budget
- €700 annual learning and development budget
- 26 weeks paid primary parental leave and 18 weeks paid secondary parental leave
- Fertility support up to €7,000
- Up to four weeks of work from anywhere per year
- Recharge Days after major milestones and busy periods
- 10 days per year of clinical leave for eligible clinical roles
- Hybrid working environment with 3 days in the office
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About Heidi
The earth's finest AI Care Partner
Heidi is building AI for healthcare, with a platform that has absorbed the administrative chaos of 175 million patient visits and supported 67 million clinical hours. It supports 2.8 million patient sessions a week across 190+ countries, in 110 languages and over 200 specialties. The company found product-market fit with a freemium medical scribe and has grown annual recurring revenue from $1 million to $50 million in two years.
Mission
Double the world's capacity for care and strengthen the human connection at its heart.
Key facts
- Healthcare AI
- Platform has absorbed the administrative chaos of 175 million patient visits
- Supported 67 million clinical hours
- Supports 2.8 million patient sessions a week across 190+ countries, in 110 languages and over 200 specialties
- Grew annual recurring revenue from $1 million to $50 million in two years
- Secured US$340 million: a $100 million Series C led by Blackbird, with Phoenix Court, Point72 Private Investments and Headline, alongside a $240 million growth investment led by General Catalyst's Cus
Partners & customers
What they value
- Build for the next decade, not next quarter
- Lead, don't wait
- Follow the evidence
- Own the outcome
- Ship, measure, go again
- Live in clinicians' reality