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# Clinical Development Lead, AI/LLM at Neko Health

- **Company:** [Neko Health](https://feeny.ai/companies/neko-health)
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $259k–$297k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neko-health/bd9705cf-e6c1-43f0-84df-c7a636ec7d98

## Job description

Mission Neko is redefining what prevention means, from treating illness when it arrives, to sustaining health before it's ever at risk. Our mission: make data-driven, preventative care accessible to more people, before symptoms appear.

In a single, non-invasive visit under an hour, proprietary technology and direct clinical care combine to deliver personalised, actionable insights. It's a team that thinks in 10x, not 10%. Every role here plays a part in building a world where prevention is the norm, and where your work genuinely helps people live longer, healthier lives.

## Role Purpose

We're looking for an exceptional Clinical Development Lead to own the clinical accuracy and safety of every generative AI surface Neko Health builds: the member-facing LLM chat, the Gen AI UX, Doctor Scribe, and Pre-brief. This is a high-impact role for a clinician who knows how to set the quality bar for generative output in a clinical context and then hold it. You'll lead the LLM and AI pillar within Clinical product and development, partnering directly with the LLM and AI Product Manager and Engineering lead: one clinical lead to one pillar, alongside them rather than shared across them. Their goal is engagement, with members returning, using the chat, and trusting it to help them understand and navigate their health. You own the thing that makes engagement safe to want: clinical quality. A generative surface someone uses ten times a year is only good if it is right every time. You set that bar, and you are the DRI for clinical safety of what these surfaces say. We're post-Series B and moving quickly, and this area of work is about clinical judgement, evaluation rigour, and strong advisory capabilities. What You'll Deliver in the First 6–12 Months

- Set clinical requirements and the quality bar for all generative AI surfaces, acting as clinical DRI from scoping through rollout.
- Build and run the clinical evaluation framework for generative outputs, and define the acceptance threshold behind the >90% eval score.
- Own the clinical safety case for member-facing chat: hallucination, unsafe or incorrect advice, and missed escalation.
- Validate Doctor Scribe output against the auto-generated debrief and referral-accuracy targets.
- Partner with the LLM and Gen AI PM and Engineering lead on the pillar roadmap, validating every release against clinical safety, accuracy and compliance.
- Work alongside the Member Experience and Medical Tools clinical leads, plus Quality & Compliance, Learning & Education, Operations and market/clinic leadership, across the product lifecycle.
- Carry a small, protected clinical commitment (roughly 0.05–0.1 FTE) to stay grounded in clinic reality.

## Minimum Requirements

- A practising or recently practising physician with the credibility to set the clinical bar and act as DRI, or an equivalent clinical-scientific background with deep clinical fluency.
- Direct experience with LLMs or generative AI in a healthcare or clinical-content setting: building, evaluating, or clinically validating generative outputs.
- Strong grasp of the failure modes of generative models in a clinical context (hallucination, unsafe advice, missed escalation) and how to evaluate against them.
- Working understanding of medical-device and clinical-software quality and safety obligations (e.g. EU MDR, GCP) as they apply to AI.
- Ability to produce and validate specialist clinical content, not only to coordinate others who do.
- Comfort operating across Swedish, UK and US clinical contexts, and the judgement to know when to override the tool with clinical reasoning.

## About Neko Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Neko Health is a healthcare technology company that has engineered a proprietary, data-driven preventive health scan to detect early signs of disease in otherwise healthy individuals.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Funding Stage: Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Stockholm, Sweden
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Daniel Ek (Co-founder, also founder/CEO of Spotify) and Hjalmar Nilsonne (Co-founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Healthcare Technology, Preventive Medicine, Clinical Diagnostics
- Target customers: B2C – Health-conscious individuals; B2B Potential – Self-insured employers
- Mission or purpose statement: “To provide healthcare that’s proactive instead of reactive – so that people can live longer, healthier lives.”

## Products & Services
- **[The Neko Health Scan]**: A 60-minute, full-body health check that captures millions of data points across the skin, heart, blood, and circulation using four proprietary devices (Derma, Spectrum, Echo, and Neko Lens). Includes an unrushed consultation with a doctor where results are discussed immediately. The scan is priced at approximately 2750kr (~$260) in Sweden and is designed for asymptomatic, healthy individuals looking for prevention.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (as of mid-2026).
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – **$325.1M** (one prior funding round).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by “investors who have built and scaled some of the most ambitious technology companies of the last two decades” (individual names not publicly listed on career page). The company has strong ties to the tech and startup ecosystem.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 1,000 employees (more than half in clinical roles). Aggressive expansion with active clinic locations in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Stockholm, and plans for more. Job postings have increased +344.4% year-over-year (as of mid-2026), indicating rapid scaling.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Hardware**: All four scanning devices are designed, engineered, and assembled in-house in Stockholm, creating a hard-to-replicate technological moat.
- **Integrated Clinical Model**: Unlike traditional clinics or digital health apps, Neko combines its proprietary hardware with on-site doctors, clinical researchers, and data science under one roof with a low patient volume per doctor ( ~9 members/day vs. 30+ in standard care). This enables a focus on prevention, not just treatment.
- **Data Moat**: The system captures millions of structured data points per scan, allowing for peer benchmarking and longitudinal tracking over years, creating a powerful, network-effect dataset for preventive health insights.
- **Leadership**: Co-founded by Daniel Ek (Spotify) and Hjalmar Nilsonne.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Scan Room**: Neko is actively testing a second-generation modular scan room platform designed to capture more signals and scale to new locations.
- **Global Expansion**: Opening new clinics across the UK and Europe, with a clear intent to make the service more accessible.
- **Clinical Research & Governance**: Continued focus on validating their devices with clinical studies and building a clinical leadership team (including ex-NHS and Amazon Health executives) to establish preventive care as a formal clinical discipline.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: The company was founded to solve the fundamental problem of late-stage diagnosis by focusing on prevention. The work is presented as having a direct, positive impact on human longevity.
- **Culture & Engineering**: The company actively showcases a deep engineering culture where “clinical insight can become a hardware iteration overnight.” Clinicians and engineers share the same floor, fostering rapid iteration and innovation.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Salaries are benchmarked via market research. Benefits include comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance, 401K, Paid Time Off, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, CME Days, and Commuter Benefits.
- **Work Model**: Roles are **on-site** at specific clinic locations. Training for medical roles is fully paid. The interview process is designed to give candidates a feel for the culture and mission.
- **Growth Trajectory**: With 80+ active job postings and triple-digit growth in hiring, the company is in a high-growth phase, offering significant career development opportunities.

## Sources
1. [nekohealth.com](https://www.nekohealth.com/en)
2. [nekohealth.com](https://www.nekohealth.com/us/en/about)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nekohealth)
4. [nekohealthcareers.com](https://www.nekohealthcareers.com/)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neko-health)

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