Clinician In-Residence
Summary
Clinician In-Residence at Dognosis, a startup developing breath-based cancer detection technology. You'll shape study protocols and clinical workflows across product, operations, and patient experience while serving as the medical voice for their MCED (multi-cancer early detection) screening product. Work involves patient counselling, research publications, and cross-functional collaboration with
As our Clinician In-Residence, you will be the medical voice across product, clinical operations, regulatory strategy, patient experience, and research as we bring breath-based cancer detection to the world.
About the Role
This is a cross-functional medical role, involving work across product, clinical operations, medical affairs, regulatory, patient experience, and research. Dognosis runs a multi-site prospective clinical study under ICH-GCP and Indian GCP compliance, and is preparing for commercial rollout. You will be embedded across both: shaping protocols and ensuring scientific rigor today, and helping build the medical foundation for a consumer screening product tomorrow.
What You'll Do
- Shape study protocols and clinical workflows alongside the Clinical & Founding Team.
- Shape the user experience and customer journey for our breath-based product(s) for MCED (multi-cancer early detection) and recurrence monitoring.
- Build and iterate on the counselling workflow for BreathEasy users on their screening results and serve as the medical point of contact for patient-facing interactions.
- Contribute to research publications and represent Dognosis at scientific conferences.
What You Need
- MBBS with registration to practice in India, and ideally in Karnataka.
- Strong communication skills. You can explain complex medical concepts in simple terms to customers and the general public, while retaining strong clinical confidence with clinicians.
- Genuine interest in product development. You want to shape how diagnostics reach people.
- Comfort in unstructured environments where you define your own priorities and work across functions.
- Interest in research and figuring out novel care pathways.
Nice to have
- Experience in clinical research, whether during training, residency, or independently.
- Experience in public-facing community (blog, social media, educational content).
- Experience in product development.
What You'll Get
- Potential co-authorship on research in top-tier journals. Dognosis has been published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology and presents frequently at ASCO, AACR, Cancer Research UK.
- Network and interactions with leading hospitals in India and the USA (Narayana Health, KMCRI, Tata Memorial, Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) and globally renowned researchers.
- Competitive salary and matching perks at a company backed by Accel, Berkeley's The House Fund, and other leading global investors.
- Working with a high-touch interdisciplinary team spanning engineers, scientists, and working detection dogs. The office is never boring.
- Ownership over a novel product with potential for a paradigm-shift in oncology and how we detect and treat cancer.