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# Medical Doctor with SNOMED Coding Experience (UK) at Aptura

- **Company:** Aptura
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aptura/c3f6b6a2-0fe2-4f5c-9fbd-4e800f88f6c0

## Job description

We are seeking qualified medical doctors to annotate and code clinical documents with SNOMED CT, with a focus on accuracy and consistency against detailed coding guidelines. You will work asynchronously on a dedicated annotation platform, coding de-identified clinical notes and documentation including discharge summaries, lab results and progress notes against SNOMED CT concepts to support the development of clinical AI platforms. This is a remote, flexible and short-term project.

## Key Responsibilities

- Structured Annotation: Identify clinically relevant concepts across discharge summaries, lab results and prognosis notes, and map them to the correct SNOMED CT codes on a dedicated platform.
- Guideline Application: Work to a coding guideline covering hierarchy scope, negation, medication scope, section-level inclusions and compound coding, applied consistently across a large volume of documents.
- Edge Case Handling: Flag ambiguous or contested cases with a short rationale so guidance can be refined.
- Quality Review: Participate in adjudication rounds to resolve disagreements and reach a consensus code set.

Qualifications:

License: GMC Registered Doctor based in the UK Experience: Minimum 1–2 years of clinical practice, with SNOMED CT coding or clinical terminology experience. Knowledge: Strong grounding in clinical documentation, terminology and coding conventions. Attention to detail: Proven accuracy and consistency in coding or clinical review work. Technical proficiency: Comfortable using structured annotation tools and digital platforms. Language: Native or near-native written English.

Legal Status

You will have the right to work in your country of residence. You will work as an independent contractor.

Why Join Us?

- Flexible Work Arrangements: Part-time, remote and fully asynchronous.
- Competitive Compensation: Hourly rate, paid weekly
- Professional Development: Hands-on experience in clinical AI development and terminology work, shaping how AI systems interpret clinical records and assign medical codes.

## About Aptura

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Aptura helps train and evaluate AI to master real-world tasks in finance, healthcare, and legal sectors, specializing in reliable AI for regulated industries.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: London, England, UK
- **Founded**: 2025 (incorporated 10 April 2025)
- **Founders**: Founded by ex-Lazard and Partners Group professionals (specific names not publicly disclosed)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: AI training and evaluation, Data services, Technology/Internet
- **Target customers**: Frontier AI labs, AI research organizations, and enterprises deploying AI in regulated industries (finance, healthcare, legal)
- **Mission/Purpose**: To bring institutional expertise from finance, healthcare, and law directly into AI model development, enabling reliable AI deployment in regulated environments

## Products & Services
- **RL Environments**: Real-world, rich environments loaded with finance, medical, and legal data, designed for verifiable rewards, custom tooling, and data licensing support. Agents complete tasks in finance spreadsheets, medical records, and legal documents with measurable outcomes.
- **Curated Datasets**: Domain-specific high-quality data (medical imaging, financial models, legal contracts) structured for training and evaluation with domain nuance.
- **Domain Expertise Services**: Internal team of physicians, attorneys, and investment analysts (with years of high-stakes experience) who work directly with AI researchers to scope and deliver projects, supported by a platform built for structured, high-quality data collection at scale.
- **Verifiable Task Design**: Combining expert knowledge, curated datasets, engineering, and real-world tasks to create training grounds for agentic AI.

## Market Standing
- **Funding**: Not publicly disclosed (company is private and early-stage)
- **Key Metric**: Total employees of 26 (as of latest LinkedIn data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Works with "leading foundational AI labs" (names not publicly specified)
- **Growth Signals**: 6,160 LinkedIn followers, active job postings across multiple domains (investment banking, radiology, legal, insurance), speaking engagements at industry events (e.g., Project A discussion on reinforcement learning)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domain-specific expertise**: Employs actual practitioners (physicians, attorneys, investment analysts) rather than generalist data labelers, enabling nuanced data and task design for regulated fields
- **Focus on verifiable, measurable outcomes**: Uses real-world tasks with objective correctness (e.g., DCF models, dental scan interpretation, contract clause analysis) rather than subjective labeling
- **Close collaboration with AI labs**: Works directly with frontier model developers, iterating rapidly on data and evaluation
- **Regulated industry specialization**: Addresses a critical gap where general-purpose AI training data fails to meet the complexity and standards of finance, healthcare, and legal applications

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Building the infrastructure to bring institutional expertise (finance, legal, healthcare) into AI model training and evaluation at scale
- **Direction**: Expanding from frontier labs to frontline deployment of reliable AI in regulated industries; recruiting domain experts across multiple sectors (investment banking, radiology, insurance, legal) on a part-time/flexible basis
- **Partnership/event activity**: Active in the RL and AI research community, with CTO Armin Schöpf speaking at Project A on reinforcement learning

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven focus on building reliable AI for high-stakes domains; emphasis on domain expertise and real-world impact
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Fully remote positions available (e.g., "Fully remote, part-time, and flexible" for expert roles; Investment Banking Associate roles listed as "Remote"); also has offices in London and San Francisco
- **Compensation**: Competitive hourly rates ($80–$200/hour for expert contractor roles) with monthly retainer structures for ongoing engagements
- **Work style**: Project-based and flexible engagements, targeting professionals who want to apply their domain expertise to cutting-edge AI development
- **Team**: Small (~26 employees) but includes highly specialized domain experts and AI researchers; likely high ownership and impact per person

## Sources
1. [aptura.ai](https://www.aptura.ai/)
2. [LinkedIn - Aptura](https://www.linkedin.com/company/apturaai)
3. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com - Aptura Careers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aptura)
4. [GOV.UK - APTURA AI UK LTD](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16378696)
5. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com - Policy Expert Role](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aptura/a82217bb-d20e-49fa-9b19-1d0e86a664ba)

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