Virtual Physician
Location: Flexible / Remote; role requires periodic travel (~10%) to NYC (East Coast or Indiana based candidates preferred)
Timeframe: PT contractor, with possibility of FT expansion
About Us
Altitude is the partner for clinical performance — uplifting how clinicians learn, practice, and grow so they can thrive in a new era of care where technology strengthens human judgment and delivers safer, more humane outcomes.
Our platform combines performance insights, adaptive guidance, and extension of customer capacity. By operating at the level of clinicians and clinician practice, we help organizations improve quality and economics — and ensure patients receive safer, more consistent, and more compassionate care.
Our Team
We’re a team of experienced clinical leaders and operators with deep experience in healthcare delivery and technology
- Prabhjot Singh, MD, PhD (Co-founder, former Chief Medical Officer of CHW Cares, Senior Advisor at the Peterson Health Technology Institute)
- Abhishek Gupta (Co-founder, previously NY Market Lead at Oak Street Health, early team at Zus Health, investor at MVP Ventures)
- Brett Ives, NP, DrPH (Chief Clinical Officer, former VP of Care Product at Diverge Health, VP of Care Product at CHW Cares, Mount Sinai Health System)
- Margaret McKenna (Tech advisor, former CTO at Devoted Health)
We are supported by top-tier VCs in healthcare and AI, including Lerer Hippeau, AlleyCorp, Tau Ventures, Chrysalis, MVP Ventures and Sequel, along with notable angels such as Aaron Patzer (Co-founder Vital.io, founder of Mint.com), Ankit Jain (CEO Infinitus, founder of Gradient Ventures), Jordan Schlain (Founder of Private Medical, America's top concierge medicine service), Kavita Patel (Venture Partner at NEA and former Obama senior policy advisor), Ashwin Vasan (former NYC Health Commissioner), Duncan Greenburg (former SVP Product at Oscar Health), Prabhdeep Singh (former Chief Growth Officer at Clover Health), and Saharsh Patel (CEO Noble, former COO Canvas Medical).
About the Role
The Virtual Physician partners with clinical leadership to translate strategy into deployed workflows and production-grade tools. The role includes refining care pathways and caring for a patient panel to generate real-world feedback that continuously strengthens the model.
This position offers hands-on collaboration with product teams, the opportunity to launch new clinical capabilities, see patients directly in an AI-enabled chronic care model, and redefine care delivery alongside clinical AI. In this role, you will serve as an expert-in-the-loop: the clinical voice that ensures we deliver safe, high-quality care at scale.
This is a part-time, flexible role.
Reporting to the Chief Clinical Officer (CCO), you will play a pivotal role in driving client success and guiding Altitude’s future direction.
What You’ll Do
- Chronic Condition Management Delivery:
- Function as a virtual physician delivering chronic condition management and transitions of care virtual visits for a defined patient cohort, first manually and later supported by Altitude’s AI models
- Iteratively improve care delivery across longitudinal care cycles
- Surface operational friction points and guide workflow redesign to enhance quality, efficiency, and patient experience
- Codify best practices and minimize clinical variation
- Serve as a clinical resource across the company, and particularly to clinical team members.
- Product Refinement:
- Institutionalize feedback loops through regular case review and quality audits
- Provide critical feedback on care model and product with clinical, product, and engineering teams
- Evolve clinical scorecards and carry out a closed-loop safety event process from reporting through resolution in conjunction with the clinical product team
What We’re Looking For
- Required qualifications
- MD with active or eligible U.S.-based licensure
- Board certification in Family Medicine or Internal Medicine, interest and focused experience in heart failure or diabetes management a plus
- Minimum 2 years of post-residency care delivery - primary care highly preferred
- Active or recent clinical practice (within past 3 years)
- Experience with managing complex chronic care patients
- Demonstrated ability to provide insight on clinical processes and implement them operationally
- Energized by early-stage environments, and experience operating in high-growth clinical environments such as telehealth, value-based care, or scaling practices
- Tech forward, experience with clinical AI products
- Loves working with patients: high empathy and good interpersonal skills
- Key qualities
- Clinician builder mindset
- Technically oriented problem solving orientation
- High clinical rigor
- Thinks in systems across patient care, operations, and product design
- Durable judgment in complex, ambiguous environments
- Shared leadership with clear clinical accountability
- Track record of ownership, bias toward action, and independent decision-making
Why Altitude?
- Tackle a once-in-a-generation shift: Play a key role in supporting clinicians as they take on a larger share of care delivery.
- Drive measurable impact: Strengthen clinician confidence, improve organizational performance, and deliver safer care for patients.
- Help shape the standard: Help define how clinical performance is measured and developed across the U.S. healthcare system.
- Collaborate with an experienced team: Work shoulder-to-shoulder with leaders from healthcare and technology, supported by top-tier investors in AI and health.
- Grow with us: Join early and help shape both Altitude’s trajectory and your own role within it.
Work Location: Remote
