Clinical Development Specialist (Palo Alto)

Company: Cheiron
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: March 27, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Company Overview Cheiron is a Stanford-based AI company building the AI-native operating system for drug development. Biopharma knowledge work is structurally fragmented. Critical decisions depend on stitching together evidence across literature, clinical trials, regulatory precedent, and patents—spread across disconnected systems. Cheiron replaces this paradigm with a unified intelligence layer: our proprietary Lifesciences Knowledge Graph (LKG), which integrates and structures these data sources into a single, continuously evolving system of record. On top of this foundation, Cheiron deploys workflow-native AI agents that execute real-world R&D, clinical, and regulatory tasks end-to-end—with full traceability and scientific rigor. Since launching in 2024, Cheiron has achieved rapid global adoption. In Korea, we reached 22% of the biopharma knowledge workforce across 200 organizations within six months. In the United States, within two months of launch, we onboarded thousands of professionals across hundreds of biopharma companies, driven by strong organic demand. Cheiron is proudly pre-VC, backed by a $6M angel round from globally recognized investors, including leaders from the SK and Samsung families and co-authors of “Attention Is All You Need.” As we scale our U.S. presence, we are expanding a deeply interdisciplinary team at the intersection of AI, life sciences, and real-world drug development workflows. The Role We are seeking a Clinical Development Specialist to help encode and optimize clinical trial design, execution, and interpretation workflows within Cheiron. This role targets individuals experienced in clinical strategy and protocol design who can translate real-world development decision-making into structured, AI-executable workflows. What You’ll Do Apply Cheiron across clinical development workflows: Protocol design (endpoints, eligibility, comparators, study design) Clinical strategy and indication expansion Competitive trial landscape analysis Clinical data interpretation and decision support Evaluate AI outputs for: Clinical validity and feasibility Alignment with standard-of-care and precedent trials Statistical and endpoint appropriateness Define structured representations of: Trial design patterns Endpoint justification frameworks Risk-benefit tradeoffs Collaborate with product/AI teams to: Build agents for protocol generation, review, and benchmarking Improve longitudinal reasoning across trial phases Develop high-quality reference cases for clinical decision workflows Who This Role Is For This role is intended for professionals with deep experience in clinical development and trial design who want to shape how clinical decision-making is executed within AI systems. Clinical Development or Clinical Science professionals involved in protocol design and execution Physicians (MDs) or PhDs with experience in clinical strategy, indication development, or translational medicine Individuals with experience in trial design, endpoint selection, and clinical data interpretation Consultants or analysts focused on clinical strategy and trial benchmarking Qualifications: Experience in Clinical Development, Clinical Strategy, or Clinical Science Deep familiarity with trial design and regulatory expectations Ability to interpret clinical data and literature critically Strong understanding of endpoints, study design, and comparators Compensation & Benefits This full-time role offers $200k - $250k in total compensation, including performance-based bonus. Compensation is determined by experience, expertise, and role alignment. Benefits include competitive healthcare, equity participation, and the opportunity to work closely with a world-class interdisciplinary team.

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