Medical Director Consultant

About Us

Edison Scientific builds and deploys AI scientist agents to accelerate science and the development of new medicines. We are an ambitious team run by scientists and engineers from leading institutions across biology, physics, chemistry, and AI.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Consulting Medical Director to help shape the future of how this work gets done. We want to make our tools better at the things you are an expert at, so that they can be deployed to amplify and accelerate the productivity of people like you. We engage with domain experts to help design and build these tasks, and help us know what we don't know.

Day-to-Day Activities

• Knowledge sharing about "day-in-the-life" as an expert working with data in these domains to assemble regulatory submissions.
• Describing common tasks or problems where AI could be of value in your workflows.
• Identify and describe internal pharma systems that are commonly used for standard workflows.
• Generate or review reference ground-truth artifacts to evaluate against - reports, data files, modules, etc.
• Identify and add realistic sources of variance or data corruption in study data.
• Identify and correct discrepancies in data quality.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience within the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry, ideally with a sponsor.
• Doctor of Medicine (MD) required. Board certification preferred.
• Experience within Oncology therapeutic area is preferred.
• Experience leading or significantly contributing to clinical study protocol design, including endpoint selection and study design rationale.
• Strong working knowledge of clinical trial methodology across Phase I–IV studies.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with biostatistics, clinical operations, regulatory affairs, and data management teams.
• Experience serving as Medical Monitor, including safety oversight and clinical data review.
• Experience with protocol amendments and lifecycle management of clinical trial documents.

Why join us?

• Remote/US based
• Flexible hours / flexible time zone - 5-20 hours per week; Ad Hoc project-based

Note: For consulting opportunities, we do not offer benefits.