Physical Therapist, Clinical Expert (Contract)

Physical Therapist, Clinical Expert (Contract)

• San Francisco
• 10–40 hours/week for 1 month (possible extension)
• $70 - $140/hr

About the role

You will work with an applied AI research lab at the intersection of healthcare and AI. We're looking for licensed physical therapists to bring real rehabilitation judgment into how AI is tested and improved.

This is a part-time contract role that fits alongside clinical practice. No coding or AI experience is required; we'll teach you the tools. What matters most is your clinical eye: catching the red flag in a referral or the change in a progress note that should alter the plan of care.

What you'll do

Clinical judgment is hard to teach, and that's where you come in. You'll partner with our researchers to show them what good care looks like in rehabilitation, from referrals, evaluations and plans of care to the decisions that never make it into a textbook.

You'll then put that expertise into practice by authoring clinical cases from the ground up. For each one, you'll assemble a realistic patient chart, pose the clinical question, answer it yourself, and decide what separates a strong response from a weak or unsafe one.

Requirements

• Active, unrestricted physical therapist license in any US state
• 3+ years of direct, hands-on patient care as a licensed PT
• Currently practicing, or in clinical practice within the last 3 years
• Working knowledge of current clinical practice guidelines and standard outcome measures
• Availability to work onsite in San Francisco 10-40 hrs/week for 1 month

Nice to have

• DPT, or experience in more than one setting (outpatient, acute, inpatient rehab, SNF, home health, peds)
• ABPTS board certification (OCS, NCS, SCS, GCS, and others), or residency or fellowship training
• Niche areas like vestibular, pelvic health, oncology, wound care, lymphedema, or cardiopulmonary
• Strong grasp of documentation and Medicare rules
• Clinical instructor, DPT faculty, NPTE item writing, chart audit or QA experience
• Any past work reviewing AI outputs or writing rubrics