Founding Head of AI – Healthcare Speech & Coding Automation

Location:

Engagement:

senior AI leader with hands-on healthcare AI experience

only if you have prior domain experience

About the Company

HIPAA-compliant AI platform

reduce clinical documentation time by 80%

Founding Technical Director

What You’ll Do

• Own the

  complete technical architecture

  — from medical ASR → NLP → coding → validation → EHR/claim export.
• Design a

  scalable, compliant, cloud-based system

  (HIPAA, GDPR).
• Build and lead the

  core ML and engineering team

  (ASR, NLP, backend, MLOps).
• Drive

  vendor evaluation and model fine-tuning

  for medical ASR and clinical NLP.
• Architect

  hybrid AI systems

  (transformers + KB + rule validation).
• Establish

  data ingestion and annotation pipelines

  with hospital partners.
• Define

  accuracy benchmarks, retraining loops, and monitoring dashboards

  .
• Work directly with founders to align

  product roadmap and compliance milestones

  .
• Collaborate with clinicians to encode

  ICD-10/CPT ontologies and payer-specific rules

  .
• Oversee

  integration with EHR (FHIR/HL7)

  and insurer claim systems.
• Manage cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and model version control.

You Bring

• 10+ years in AI / data engineering, including

  3–5 years in healthcare or clinical informatics

  .
• Experience building or leading systems for

  clinical documentation, ambient scribing, or medical coding

  .
• Proven work with

  medical ASR

  (e.g., Nuance, AWS HealthScribe, Whisper medical) and

  NLP models

  (ClinicalBERT, DeBERTa-med, UMLS/SNOMED linking).
• Deep understanding of

  ICD-10/CPT ontologies

  and claim workflows.
• Strong system design & programming skills (

  Python, FastAPI, PyTorch/TensorFlow, Kubernetes

  ).
• Familiarity with

  FHIR

  ,

  EHR integrations

  ,

  HIPAA/GDPR

  , and

  data security protocols

  .
• Leadership experience: built or managed a technical team, set up MLOps, mentored engineers.
• Strong product mindset — balancing research ambition with enterprise reliability.
• Bonus: prior experience at companies like

  Abridge, DeepScribe, CodaMetrix, Ambience Health, 3M, or similar

  .

Why Join Us

• Be the first technical founder

  of a high-impact AI healthcare platform.
• End-to-end ownership: from architecture → launch → scale.
• Work with a visionary founding team experienced in education, health, and social impact sectors.
• Competitive compensation + equity or partnership options.
• Remote flexibility and international exposure.

Our Vision

To create an AI-powered healthcare ecosystem where documentation and coding happen seamlessly, empowering doctors to focus on care — not paperwork.