MercorDomain experts
Multilingual Inpatient Hospitalist (MD): Clinical Documentation & AI Evaluation
$170/hr
About this role, in Mercor's words
Mercor is hiring practicing Inpatient Hospitalists (MD) on behalf of a healthcare AI partner building advanced clinical documentation and decision-support tools. In this role you will apply your active inpatient expertise to review, annotate, and evaluate hospital clinical documentation , directly shaping the accuracy, safety, and clinical usefulness of medical AI systems.
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What this role asks for
- 5+ yrs experience (preferred)
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- 5+ yrs experience (preferred): “…• Minimum availability of 10 hours/week Preferred Qualifications • 5+ years of experience post-residency • Familiarity with Epic • Prior AI/ML annotation or model evaluation…”
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in Mercor's words
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About the Role
Mercor is hiring practicing Inpatient Hospitalists (MD) on behalf of a healthcare AI partner building advanced clinical documentation and decision-support tools. In this role you will apply your active inpatient expertise to review, annotate, and evaluate hospital clinical documentation , directly shaping the accuracy, safety, and clinical usefulness of medical AI systems.
This role is designed for physicians with a current inpatient practice who write and read hospital documentation as part of their regular work.
This is a multilingual cohort. In addition to English, you must be able to speak, listen, and write in at least one other language at an advanced (C1) level or above .
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Documentation Review
• Review inpatient documentation — H&Ps, daily progress notes, and discharge summaries — for accuracy, completeness, and clinical soundness
• Evaluate AI-generated inpatient notes and summaries against what a practicing hospitalist would actually document
Annotation & Structured Feedback
• Annotate inpatient encounter data against detailed guidelines
• Flag omissions, hallucinations, clinical inaccuracies, and documentation gaps in AI-generated output
• Provide structured, written feedback that engineering and product teams can act on
Knowledge Contribution
• Contribute expert input on annotation guidelines, documentation standards, and edge-case definitions
• Raise clarifying questions where guidance is ambiguous and help refine the guidelines
Required Qualifications
• MD — hospitalist or internal medicine — with 2+ years post-residency and a current inpatient practice
• US-based
• Hands-on experience writing and reading at least one of the following: H&Ps, progress notes, discharge summaries
• In addition to English, advanced (C1 or above) proficiency — speaking, listening, and writing — in at least one of the following languages:
• Spanish · Chinese (Mandarin) · Chinese (Cantonese) · Tagalog · Russian · Haitian Creole
• Korean · Arabic · Portuguese · Polish · Japanese
• Turkish · Italian · Ukrainian · Romanian · Finnish · French · Danish · Catalan · Hungarian · Czech · German · Bulgarian · Indonesian · Dutch
• Minimum availability of 10 hours/week
Preferred Qualifications
• 5+ years of experience post-residency
• Familiarity with Epic
• Prior AI/ML annotation or model evaluation work experience, with strong performance reviews
• Experience documenting patient care in a language other than English
Work Arrangement
• Remote, part-time — minimum 10 hours/week
• Flexible scheduling, designed around an active clinical practice
Working with MercorPay, getting started and work, from Mercor's own pages
What the platform publishes in general. These are not extra terms confirmed for this particular role.
- Getting paid
- Hourly work is paid every Wednesday for the previous week, through Stripe Connect or Wise, whichever Mercor assigns to your region. Stripe holds the first payout for 7 days. talent.docs.mercor.com/how-to/payments, talent.docs.mercor.com/policies/contracts
- Before your first paid task
- An AI interview of about 20 minutes, reused for other roles that need it, then any assessments the role asks for. Before logging hours: ID verification through Persona, a tax form, the contract documents, the Insightful time tracker, and a background check the onboarding guide says usually takes one to two weeks. talent.docs.mercor.com/support/ai-interview, talent.docs.mercor.com/how-to/apply, talent.docs.mercor.com/policies/contracts, talent.docs.mercor.com/how-to/id-verification, talent.docs.mercor.com/working/project-onboarding
- How much work
- The current interview FAQ gives no reply-time estimate. Mercor says it notifies you when your application moves to the next stage and that you can keep applying. When a project ends you are not moved to a new one automatically. talent.docs.mercor.com/support/ai-interview, talent.docs.mercor.com/support/project
- Contract
- Independent contractor with Mercor.io Corporation of San Francisco, which deducts no taxes. talent.docs.mercor.com/policies/taxes-work-authorization, talent.docs.mercor.com/support/legal
Read on the pages linked above on 23 Sep 2026. Platforms change these terms, so check the linked page before you rely on one.
Alex's experience on MercorA personal account, not a promise about your project
Alexruns this site and has worked on Mercor himself. Written 31 Aug 2026.
- Every interview I took used an AI interviewer. They always checked my microphone and camera and asked me to share my screen, and some included a timed exercise of around 25 minutes.
- Many later applications needed no new interview from me. With the required assessments complete and no other outstanding steps, applying could be close to one click.
- The application I checked did not ask for a rate. My offer matched my minimum in Work Preferences. That does not establish that Mercor always caps higher offers at your preference.
- Onboarding and setup came to about 4 hours, with more security and tool setup. Of the three platforms I worked on, it was the most complicated for me. That is an estimate from my projects, not a platform average.
- Mercor required the Insightful tracker on my project. I observed app and website usage monitoring, and I am unsure which screenshot settings applied, so check the configuration.
- I was paid for hours logged, once every 14 days, and I have not experienced late or incorrect payments. That was my arrangement. Mercor's current documentation describes weekly payout cycles, so check your own offer.
One person's applications, not a promise about yours.
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Pay across the field: Domain experts
Across 751 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 21 platforms, the middle half pays $61 to $125 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $100. This role's top rate, $170, is in the top quarter. Of the 267 distinct rates we count, 236 are lower and 29 are higher.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| micro1 | 155 | $12 to $400 · median $110 |
| Alignerr | 148 | $24 to $200 · median $80 |
| AfterQuery | 93 | $45 to $175 · median $100 |
| Mercor (this platform) | 89 | $55 to $450 · median $120 |
| Handshake AI | 81 | $30 to $300 · median $80 |
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- First seen here on 3 Sep 2026, and still on Mercor's list when we last read it on 25 Oct 2026.
- The listed pay has not changed since then.
- Posted by Mercor
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