# Clinical Informatics Specialist

**Company:** [Latent](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/latent)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Data Science
**Salary:** $75k – $100k/yr
**Skills:** pharmacy practice, medications, prescriptions, drug interactions, clinical guidelines, data annotation, Model Evaluation, epic, cerner, prior authorizations, 340b, patient safety
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Clinical Informatics Specialist embedded in product team to generate, annotate, and evaluate clinical datasets for medication-focused AI models. Serves as pharmacy SME to ensure AI outputs align with real-world clinical practice, safety standards, and regulatory requirements while collaborating with engineers, data scientists, and PMs.

## Job Description

## 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 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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