Clinical Informatics Specialist

Latent

  • San Francisco, California
  • 11 days ago

    Highlights

    The Clinical Specialist will play a critical role in data generation, annotation, and evaluation to improve Latent’s AI models, while also serving as a clinical subject matter expert (SME) to inform feature development, workflows, and internal tooling. Background in pharmacy practice, including formal training or certification as a Pharmacist or Pharmacy Technician, Physicians Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Nurse or equivalent hands-on clinical experience.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSan Francisco, California
    Websitehttps://latenthealth.com/

    Description

    About Latent

    Latent is building the clinical intelligence layer for healthcare AI. Our platform enables AI systems to reason safely and accurately over medications, clinical knowledge, and patient-specific context. We work closely with healthcare organizations and AI builders to ensure models behave in ways that are clinically sound, regulatory-aware, and trustworthy.

    About the Role

    Latent is seeking a Clinical Informatics Specialist to join our Engineering, Product, and Data (EPD) organization. This role sits directly within Product and is deeply embedded in product development.

    The Clinical Specialist will play a critical role in data generation, annotation, and evaluation to improve Latent’s AI models, while also serving as a clinical subject matter expert (SME) to inform feature development, workflows, and internal tooling.

    You will partner closely with product managers, engineers, and data scientists to ensure Latent’s products reflect real-world clinical practice and meet the highest standards of safety and accuracy.

    What You’ll Do

    AI Model Training & Evaluation

    • Analyze and review AI-generated content related to medications, prescriptions, drug interactions, contraindications, and patient education for clinical accuracy and clarity.

    • Generate, label, and curate high-quality training and evaluation datasets based on real-world pharmacy and medication-use scenarios.

    • Provide structured clinical feedback to improve model performance, reasoning quality, and edge-case handling.

    • Identify gaps in AI knowledge and propose targeted data or educational interventions to address them.

    Product Development & Clinical SME Support

    • Serve as a clinical subject matter expert for product and engineering teams during feature design and iteration.

    • Collaborate with product managers to translate clinical workflows into scalable product features.

    • Actively test Latent’s pharmacist and medication-focused tools, providing actionable feedback and proposing product enhancements.

    Quality, Safety & Compliance

    • Ensure AI outputs align with current clinical guidelines, pharmaceutical standards, and best practices.

    • Help define and enforce internal quality standards for clinical content used in training and evaluation.

    • Ensure all data generation and AI outputs adhere to regulatory, ethical, and privacy requirements relevant to pharmacy practice.

    Cross-Functional Collaboration

    • Partner with data scientists, ML engineers, and product managers to design clinically grounded training sets and evaluation frameworks.

    • Communicate complex clinical concepts clearly through written documentation and internal discussions.

    • Contribute to continuous improvement of Latent’s clinical intelligence processes and tooling.

    What We’re Looking For

    • Background in pharmacy practice, including formal training or certification as a Pharmacist or Pharmacy Technician, Physicians Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Nurse or equivalent hands-on clinical experience.

    • Demonstrated experience working with medications, prescriptions, drug interactions, and pharmacy workflows in real-world settings.

    • Strong clinical judgment and attention to detail, with the ability to evaluate medication-related content for accuracy, safety, and clarity.

    • Ability to translate real-world clinical scenarios into structured data, annotations, or written feedback.

    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially when explaining complex clinical concepts to non-clinical teammates.

    • Comfort collaborating closely with product, engineering, and data science teams in a fast-paced environment.

    • Passionate about healthcare access.

    Nice to Have

    • Familiarity with clinical guidelines, regulatory considerations, and patient safety frameworks.

    • Familiarity with prior authorizations, 340B, and medication assistance programs.

    • Prior experience with Epic and/or Cerner.

    • Prior experience with data annotation, model evaluation, or quality assurance for AI systems.

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