Extended team
Required Skills
Physician Recruiting
Locum Tenens
Clinical Sourcing
Credentialing
Specialty Knowledge
Licensure Verification
Candidate Screening
Boolean Sourcing
Networking
Confidentiality
About micro1
micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.
Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data. Our research spans high-value, specialized domains (legal, medical, finance, coding, etc.), where expert-level data is the hardest to produce and most valuable for advanced model performance. Our pipeline performance system ensures both quality and velocity.
Job Title: Physician & Clinical Headhunter - Referral Partnership
Job Type: Contractor
Location: Remote
Job Summary: In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input. No prior experience in AI is required — your domain knowledge is what matters. This is a referral partnership; success fee of $1,000–$5,000 per placement, set per role before sourcing begins.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify and engage qualified physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, and clinical pharmacists for unique, remote, part-time, non-clinical roles supporting AI development.
- Leverage networks, lateral search, networking, and Boolean sourcing strategies to generate targeted referrals and build high-quality candidate pipelines.
- Screen and assess clinicians for fit based on specific assignment briefs and requirements, ensuring confidentiality and professionalism at every stage.
- Verify credentials and conduct bar/license checks where applicable, ensuring a high standard of candidate quality and compliance.
- Facilitate communication between candidates and the customer's project leads, supporting a seamless recruiting and onboarding process.
- Document outreach, referral activity, and candidate feedback to provide transparency and support continual process improvement.
- Share market insights and trends with the customer's team, helping shape role specifications and sourcing strategies for maximum impact.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Proven experience in physician recruiting, lateral search, and contract staffing within the healthcare sector.
- Demonstrated ability to source attorneys and conduct bar verification as needed.
- Solid understanding of clinical practice areas and healthcare staffing requirements.
- Strong candidate screening and interviewing skills, with a focus on confidentiality and discretion.
- Expertise in Boolean sourcing, networking, and building lasting professional relationships.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple concurrent assignments, and uphold legal and ethical standards.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in physician, locum tenens, or clinical recruiting.
- Established clinician network and experience sourcing subspecialists (e.g., pediatric oncologists, interventional radiologists, clinical informaticists).
- Strong communication skills and ability to operate independently; may serve other clients in parallel.
This is an independent contractor engagement, not an employment position. There are no fixed working hours or guaranteed volume of assignments. Contractors are responsible for their own business expenses and applicable taxes.