Intelehealth is an international non-profit committed to improving access to primary health care in underserved regions of the world through its innovative technology platform. Intelehealth can be used by health organizations to set up high quality primary health care programs connecting patients in remote and rural communities to doctors.
We believe work should be meaningful as well as enriching. At Intelehealth, we’re taking on one of the world’s biggest development’s challenge - solving the health access gap for last mile populations. We believe in creating and maintaining an organizational culture of innovation which is conducive for the incredible people who work with us.
This is a remote position.
We are seeking an AI R&D Lead to lead a multidisciplinary team building LLM and Multimodal AI systems for clinical use within Intelehealth’s telemedicine platform. This is a techno-functional leadership role requiring deep expertise in modern AI systems alongside strong grounding in clinical safety, regulatory frameworks, and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).
The role combines hands-on technical contribution with team leadership, ensuring that AI systems are not only effective, but clinically safe, auditable, and deployable in real-world health systems. This role is for an intrapreneurial interdisciplinary thinker who is excited at innovating and translating advances in generative AI to products that benefit vulnerable communities.
Key Responsibilities
1. Technical and Research Leadership
Define and execute the roadmap for LLM and Multimodal AI across the organization
Make architectural decisions across prompting, fine-tuning, retrieval (RAG), and Multimodal system design
Set standards for model evaluation, safety, and deployment
2. Team Leadership and Management
Build, manage, and mentor a team of AI/ML researchers, engineers, clinicians
Establish clear goals, execution plans, and performance expectations for the team
Create a culture of rigor, documentation, and accountability—especially around clinical risk
Balance research exploration with product delivery timelines
3. Clinical Safety and Risk Oversight
Own safety frameworks for AI systems, including hallucination mitigation and fail-safe design
Ensure human-in-the-loop systems are appropriately designed and implemented
Oversee structured risk assessments and alignment with clinical protocols
4. Regulatory and SaMD Alignment
Drive alignment of AI systems with SaMD principles and regulatory expectations
Ensure documentation, traceability, and audit ability across the model lifecycle
Work with leadership and partners on regulatory strategy and compliance pathways
5. Multimodal and LLM System Development
Guide development of systems combining text, voice, image, and structured data
Oversee adaptation of foundation models for low-resource, high-variability environments
Ensure systems are robust to real-world data quality issues
6. Cross-functional Execution
Partner with product, engineering, and clinical teams to translate research into deployable features
Act as the primary interface between AI, clinical stakeholders, and external partners
Support fundraising and strategic partnerships with clear articulation of AI capabilities and safeguards
7. Innovation at the last mile
Design and deploy LLM and Multimodal AI systems for low-resource settings, accounting for constraints such as limited connectivity, low-spec devices, and variable data quality
Ensure robustness to missing or noisy inputs and optimize for offline-first or low-bandwidth environments
Adapt systems for usability by frontline health workers with varying levels of clinical training and digital literacy
Incorporate contextual factors (e.g., health system fragmentation, population diversity, and infrastructure variability) into model design, evaluation, and deployment
Qualifications & Experience
Advance degree (PhD, MD, or equivalent experience) in machine learning, biomedical engineering, computer science, or related field.
At least 6 years of experience overall, including at least 1 year of significant work with LLMs and/or Multimodal systems.
Prior experience leading and managing technical teams
Demonstrated experience deploying AI systems in healthcare
Demonstrated experience building or deploying AI/ML or digital health systems in low-resource or high-variability environments, with an understanding of constraints such as limited infrastructure, data quality challenges, and end-user usability in frontline care settings
Experience in healthcare, digital health, or global health settings
Key Competencies
Strong hands-on expertise in:
a. Large language models (prompting, fine-tuning, evaluation, guardrails)
b. Multimodal systems (vision-language models, speech interfaces)
c. Knowledge grounding approaches (RAG, structured clinical knowledge systems)
Direct experience with Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) development and lifecycle
Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (e.g., FDA, CE, CDSCO, or equivalent)
- Remote working.
- Flexible working hours.
- Great work culture.
- 5 days working.
- Group Medical Insurance.
