Head of Research [NYC or SF]
- Compensation
- $300K–$500K / yr
- Location
- New York City
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- A track record of running research programs—not just contributing to them. You have owned scope, people, timelines, and the decision to stop
- A background in AI for health at a research lab or an equivalent setting. Work on systems like Google DeepMind's AMIE, or leading health research efforts at a major lab, is the shape we have in mind
- A public record of rigorous work: publications, evaluation studies, benchmarks, or systems other researchers use
- Fluency in clinical evaluation, including study design, what counts as evidence in medicine, and why a benchmark result is not a clinical claim
- Experience hiring and developing researchers, and building the practices a research function runs on
- Comfort in policy and regulatory conversations, and the judgment to communicate limitations clearly
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to make technical work credible to clinical and non-technical audiences
- A strong sense of ownership, and the willingness to build the function rather than inherit it
Nice to have
- Clinical training. Practising or former clinicians who moved into research are very welcome
- Experience with regulatory submissions, clinical trials, or evidence generation for a regulated product
- Experience evaluating agentic or multi-step LLM systems rather than single-turn models
- Existing relationships across academic medicine or health policy
Full description
About Concurrence
Concurrence (formerly Amigo) is building the platform healthcare organizations use to build their own clinical AI agents. Our mission is to make excellent care accessible to every patient, not rationed by the limits of clinician time.
Underneath our platform is the Health World Model, which unifies a health system’s data into a living, event-level record of every patient’s care. On top of it, agents handle work across the patient journey, from intake and scheduling to medication management and clinical decision support.
Our agents have supported more than 10 million patient encounters and are on track to grow tenfold this year. We run natively on Databricks, integrate with every major EHR, and are backed by Madrona, General Catalyst, and Optum Ventures. We’re about 35 people, working in person in New York and San Francisco.
About this role
Clinical AI is only worth deploying if someone can demonstrate that it works. Our agents have supported millions of patient encounters, which means we’re held to a clinical standard and trust is earned from clinicians, regulators, and academic reviewers. As Head of Research, you’ll own that case.
You’ll build Concurrence’s research function from the ground up: hiring researchers, setting the agenda alongside our CTO, and owning how our systems are evaluated. That includes benchmarks, patient simulation, diagnostic reasoning evaluation, and the studies that show a clinical agent behaves appropriately in the settings where it is actually deployed. You’ll also own how this work reaches the outside world through publications, academic collaborations, and the regulatory and policy conversations that follow.
Research sits unusually close to the product here. We deploy into live health systems, so findings are expected to change what we ship and the standards you set determine what’s allowed in front of patients. You’ll work directly with the clinicians on our team so the research reflects how medicine is practiced, not just how it appears in a dataset.
This role blends scientific leadership with organizational judgment. You’ll be building a function, not joining one, while representing Concurrence’s technical credibility externally. The ideal candidate brings deep research expertise, the operational discipline to run programs to completion (and stop them when appropriate), and the communication skills to make rigorous work legible to clinical and regulatory audiences.
What you'll do
- Build and lead the research team by hiring researchers and setting the research agenda with our CTO
- Own how we evaluate clinical agents, including benchmarks, patient simulation, diagnostic reasoning evaluation, and the standards a system must meet before it reaches a patient