Start with the procedure.
A useful camera view, annotation, or dataset begins with a clinical question. Build alongside the people who understand what the recording means.
CAREERS AT OPERAVUE
Make expertise
teachable.
Surgery brings perception, judgment, and skilled movement together. Help turn that expertise into data the next generation of AI can learn from.
We’re building our talent network for future roles. The specialties below describe planned areas of work; approved openings and their terms will be published as they become available.
WHERE WE WANT TO CONNECT
Four cities.
A shared ambition.
We welcome interest from people in these cities and beyond. These are talent-network location preferences, not a list of established offices.
THE WORK AHEAD
Build with context.
Deliver with care.
Make quality inspectable.
Preserve provenance. Define units. Test assumptions. Give researchers the evidence they need to understand a release and its limits.
Respect the source.
Patient privacy, institutional permissions, and fair terms for contributors belong in the design of the work from the start.
FIND YOUR CONTRIBUTION
Specialized work.
Room to shape it.
Explore 16 planned role directions across 4 areas. Each includes a concrete scope and relevant experience. This form records interest in future opportunities.
16 planned role directions
Research & Engineering
Computer Vision Researcher, Surgical VideoNew York City · Boston · San Francisco · LondonPlanned role
Explore how models represent instruments, anatomy, and procedural context across long surgical recordings. This direction connects research questions to the visual evidence a dataset must contain.
Work you could shape
- Design experiments for temporal recognition, retrieval, and representation learning with clearly defined targets.
- Compare performance across recording conditions and document uncertainty, missing coverage, and failure modes.
- Translate findings into specific capture and annotation requirements that other teams can inspect.
Experience that would help
- Research or engineering work with video models and reproducible experiments.
- Practical understanding of dataset splits, evaluation design, and distribution changes.
- Clear technical writing that separates observations from hypotheses and conclusions.
The contribution: Help make research briefs precise enough to guide useful data collection and meaningful evaluation.
This is a planned role direction for our talent network, not an approved vacancy. Scope, location, work arrangement, compensation, and timing would be confirmed for a specific opening.
Stereo Vision & Calibration EngineerBoston · San Francisco · LondonPlanned role
Develop methods for assessing paired surgical video, from camera geometry to synchronization. The focus is understanding which measurements the delivered images can reliably support.
Work you could shape
- Specify calibration records, coordinate conventions, and image transformations for proposed capture configurations.
- Build checks for view pairing, timestamp drift, dropped frames, and changed camera settings.
- Evaluate representative test recordings and explain how defects affect downstream geometric tasks.
Experience that would help
- Hands-on work with stereo cameras, calibration, or geometric computer vision.
- Experience tracing image-processing steps and timing through a media pipeline.
- Ability to communicate measurement uncertainty without overstating reconstruction accuracy.
The contribution: Turn a stereo recording specification into testable evidence about geometry, timing, and delivered image quality.
This is a planned role direction for our talent network, not an approved vacancy. Scope, location, work arrangement, compensation, and timing would be confirmed for a specific opening.
Research Engineer, Robot Learning DataNew York City · Boston · San Francisco · LondonPlanned role
Investigate the relationship between surgical observations, robot state, and action supervision. This direction asks what a recording contributes to learning and which necessary signals remain missing.
Work you could shape
- Define data requirements for perception, geometric estimation, and action-conditioned learning experiments.
- Inspect temporal alignment between video and any separately available state or command streams.
- Build reproducible prototypes that expose assumptions about embodiment, supervision, and transfer.
Experience that would help
- Work with imitation learning, robotics datasets, or sequential decision models.
- Practical knowledge of timestamp alignment and multimodal data representations.
- Judgment about what offline research can and cannot establish.
The contribution: Help research teams distinguish useful visual observations from the additional evidence needed for robot learning.
This is a planned role direction for our talent network, not an approved vacancy. Scope, location, work arrangement, compensation, and timing would be confirmed for a specific opening.
Data Infrastructure Engineer, Surgical MediaNew York City · Boston · San Francisco · LondonPlanned role
Shape reliable handling of large video collections and their accompanying metadata. The work centers on traceable transformations, reproducible releases, and systems that make missing or inconsistent information visible.
Work you could shape
- Design ingestion and reconciliation workflows around manifests, checksums, and explicit release identifiers.
- Preserve source relationships through clipping, transcoding, annotation exports, and approved corrections.
- Build observable processing jobs with recoverable failures and clear access boundaries.
Experience that would help
- Production data pipelines, object storage, and reliable batch processing.
- Working knowledge of video containers, codecs, and metadata validation.
- Careful handling of access controls, lineage, and reproducible transformations.
The contribution: Make it possible to trace a delivered artifact back to its source and preparation history.
This is a planned role direction for our talent network, not an approved vacancy. Scope, location, work arrangement, compensation, and timing would be confirmed for a specific opening.
Software Engineer, Clinical Annotation ToolsNew York City · San Francisco · LondonPlanned role
Create interfaces that help qualified reviewers describe surgical video consistently. This direction combines precise temporal controls with workflows for uncertainty, disagreement, and annotation-guide changes.
Work you could shape
- Prototype frame and interval review interfaces with unambiguous timestamps and media-version references.
- Support reviewer feedback, adjudication, and corrections without erasing earlier decisions.
- Test exports against label definitions and make incomplete work easy to identify.
Experience that would help
- Building accessible web applications for detailed professional workflows.
- Experience with media playback, structured forms, or annotation systems.
- Ability to learn from reviewers and translate feedback into usable software.
The contribution: Reduce avoidable annotation friction while preserving the context researchers need to interpret each label.
This is a planned role direction for our talent network, not an approved vacancy. Scope, location, work arrangement, compensation, and timing would be confirmed for a specific opening.
Clinical & Capture
Surgeon, Clinical Annotation DesignNew York City · Boston · San Francisco · LondonPlanned role
Help define what can be observed and labeled in surgical recordings. This direction brings clinical judgment to research tasks without treating footage as a substitute for complete clinical context.
Work you could shape
- Develop task-specific definitions for phases, instruments, visible actions, and ambiguous observations.
- Review example labels and explain disagreements that reveal unclear instructions or missing context.
- Identify questions that require information beyond the recording and document those limits.
Experience that would help
- Surgical training and relevant procedural knowledge for the proposed project.
- Experience teaching, reviewing clinical material, or developing research definitions.
- Ability to explain observable evidence clearly to technical collaborators.
The contribution: Help annotation schemes reflect defensible clinical distinctions and state when the video cannot answer a question.
This is a planned role direction for our talent network, not an approved vacancy. Scope, location, work arrangement, compensation, and timing would be confirmed for a specific opening.
Clinical Video Review LeadNew York City · Boston · LondonPlanned role
Shape how clinical review is organized, documented, and improved across an annotation project. The emphasis is a consistent review process with visible uncertainty and accountable correction decisions.
Work you could shape
- Define reviewer calibration exercises and escalation paths for disputed or unassessable segments.
- Plan review samples around important error types rather than a single average score.
- Track guide revisions, adjudication outcomes, and which earlier labels need another review.
Experience that would help
- Relevant clinical expertise and experience evaluating procedural or research material.
- Coordinating reviewers, teaching teams, or structured quality-improvement work.
- Comfort describing disagreement and limitations without forcing false certainty.
The contribution: Make review findings actionable and preserve the reasoning behind a released annotation set.
This is a planned role direction for our talent network, not an approved vacancy. Scope, location, work arrangement, compensation, and timing would be confirmed for a specific opening.
Surgical Capture Program SpecialistNew York City · Boston · San Francisco · LondonPlanned role
Help turn an approved recording concept into a practical capture plan. This direction coordinates the people, preparation, and handoffs needed for research recording within an institution’s requirements.
Work you could shape
- Map responsibilities for setup, recording interruptions, end-of-case handling, and release review.
- Prepare pilot checklists with clinical, engineering, privacy, and institutional stakeholders.
- Document workflow observations and unresolved issues before proposing a broader collection program.
Experience that would help
- Experience supporting clinical research or complex procedural workflows.
- Strong coordination and documentation across teams with different responsibilities.
- Judgment about when an operational question needs institutional review.
The contribution: Help recording plans fit the approved clinical workflow while keeping care priorities and responsibilities clear.
This is a planned role direction for our talent network, not an approved vacancy. Scope, location, work arrangement, compensation, and timing would be confirmed for a specific opening.
Capture Hardware & Field EngineerBoston · San Francisco · LondonPlanned role
Explore the practical reliability of recording equipment and its supporting workflow. Work would connect bench testing, configuration records, and approved pilot support for optional headsets and other capture systems.
Work you could shape
- Test recording continuity, power, storage, and recovery from interrupted or incomplete sessions.
- Document hardware configurations and changes that affect image quality, timing, or calibration.
- Develop support and troubleshooting materials within the institution’s approved equipment procedures.
Experience that would help
- Hands-on testing of cameras, embedded devices, or recording hardware.
- Experience isolating intermittent failures and documenting reproducible conditions.
- Careful collaboration around site-specific equipment and operating requirements.
The contribution: Make capture failures easier to detect, explain, and resolve before they become gaps in a dataset.
This is a planned role direction for our talent network, not an approved vacancy. Scope, location, work arrangement, compensation, and timing would be confirmed for a specific opening.
Data Quality & Trust
Dataset Quality & Evaluation ScientistNew York City · Boston · San Francisco · LondonPlanned role
Define evidence that helps a research team assess whether a surgical dataset fits its question. This direction covers sampling, missingness, split integrity, and interpretable acceptance criteria.
Work you could shape
- Design checks for case, source-video, and patient grouping where those identifiers are available.
- Analyze coverage and exclusions across relevant recording settings, with unknown metadata reported explicitly.
- Write acceptance reports that state methods, denominators, exceptions, and unresolved limitations.
Experience that would help
- Applied statistics, dataset evaluation, or empirical machine learning research.
- Practical experience with correlated observations and reproducible analysis.
- Ability to distinguish a useful check from a broader validation claim.
The contribution: Replace vague quality labels with evidence a buyer can inspect and a preparation team can act on.
This is a planned role direction for our talent network, not an approved vacancy. Scope, location, work arrangement, compensation, and timing would be confirmed for a specific opening.
Data Rights & Provenance SpecialistNew York City · Boston · LondonPlanned role
Organize the evidence behind a proposed recording or licensing arrangement. This direction makes source history, permissions, permitted uses, and unresolved questions legible to institutional and legal reviewers.
Work you could shape
- Maintain structured records of source ownership, approvals, restrictions, and supporting documents.
- Connect permitted-use decisions to the exact data release and proposed recipient scope.
- Coordinate open questions with rights holders and qualified advisers before a release decision.
Experience that would help
- Data licensing, research administration, contracting operations, or information governance.
- Experience reconciling documents and tracking obligations across changing versions.
- Clear judgment about when specialist legal or institutional input is needed.
The contribution: Help each partnership proceed with a traceable account of what is known, authorized, and still unresolved.
This is a planned role direction for our talent network, not an approved vacancy. Scope, location, work arrangement, compensation, and timing would be confirmed for a specific opening.
Privacy Engineer, Surgical DataNew York City · Boston · San Francisco · LondonPlanned role
Develop technical controls for the full proposed data release, including video, audio, overlays, metadata, and derivatives. This direction supports qualified privacy review without equating automation with legal clearance.
Work you could shape
- Map potential identifying information across media, annotation exports, thumbnails, and file metadata.
- Build reproducible preparation checks and document detected issues, exceptions, and correction history.
- Work with designated reviewers on access boundaries, release controls, and incident response requirements.
Experience that would help
- Privacy engineering, sensitive-data systems, or secure media-processing workflows.
- Experience evaluating automated detection and the limits of its coverage.
- Ability to work closely with security, privacy, and institutional specialists.
The contribution: Help establish inspectable safeguards and preserve the evidence needed for a properly scoped release review.
This is a planned role direction for our talent network, not an approved vacancy. Scope, location, work arrangement, compensation, and timing would be confirmed for a specific opening.
Partnerships & Operations
Institutional Data Partnerships LeadNew York City · Boston · San Francisco · LondonPlanned role
Develop potential partnerships with institutions that hold surgical recordings or can support approved capture. The work begins with fit, authority, and shared expectations before any data changes hands.
Work you could shape
- Map a prospective partner’s archive, decision makers, rights questions, and preparation requirements.
- Coordinate a scoped proposal with clinical, technical, privacy, and commercial stakeholders.
- Document responsibilities and proposed minimum guarantees or revenue shares for negotiation.
Experience that would help
- Institutional partnerships, healthcare business development, or research collaborations.
- Managing complex discussions with multiple decision makers and review processes.
- Ability to separate a promising opportunity from an agreed deliverable.
The contribution: Help institutions assess a partnership on clear evidence, defined responsibilities, and an understandable commercial model.
This is a planned role direction for our talent network, not an approved vacancy. Scope, location, work arrangement, compensation, and timing would be confirmed for a specific opening.
Research Partnerships Lead, Robotics & AINew York City · Boston · San Francisco · LondonPlanned role
Translate a potential buyer’s research objective into a specific data conversation. This direction connects robotics and AI teams with the evidence needed to scope sourcing, capture, and expert work.
Work you could shape
- Clarify the target task, required signals, evaluation plan, and permitted-use expectations.
- Coordinate representative sample discussions and acceptance criteria with technical and clinical colleagues.
- Keep proposals explicit about available information, proposed work, dependencies, and unresolved questions.
Experience that would help
- Technical partnerships or customer-facing work with research and engineering teams.
- Working understanding of computer vision, robotics, or machine learning workflows.
- Strong written scoping and disciplined follow-through on technical questions.
The contribution: Help buyers reach a useful project definition without confusing an exploratory conversation with confirmed data availability.
This is a planned role direction for our talent network, not an approved vacancy. Scope, location, work arrangement, compensation, and timing would be confirmed for a specific opening.
Surgeon Network & Expert Programs LeadNew York City · Boston · LondonPlanned role
Shape how surgeons express interest and contribute relevant expertise to scoped projects. This direction separates recording participation from annotation, evaluation, and advisory work, with clear expectations for each.
Work you could shape
- Understand prospective contributors’ specialties, experience, interests, and project-specific participation requirements.
- Coordinate onboarding materials, task explanations, and feedback with clinical project owners.
- Track agreed responsibilities and compensation terms without promising work before project fit is established.
Experience that would help
- Clinician engagement, expert networks, medical education, or research operations.
- Experience coordinating professional contributors with limited and variable availability.
- Clear communication about scope, expectations, and unresolved project details.
The contribution: Make it easier for surgeons to understand potential contributions and evaluate whether a project fits their expertise.
This is a planned role direction for our talent network, not an approved vacancy. Scope, location, work arrangement, compensation, and timing would be confirmed for a specific opening.
Data Program Operations LeadNew York City · Boston · San Francisco · LondonPlanned role
Connect project scope to the daily coordination of preparation, review, and delivery. This direction focuses on visible dependencies, documented decisions, and release readiness across multidisciplinary data programs.
Work you could shape
- Maintain plans covering inputs, owners, review gates, deliverables, and agreed acceptance criteria.
- Track exceptions and changes so schedule pressure does not silently alter the project scope.
- Reconcile delivery records and agreed reporting inputs for guarantees, revenue shares, and partner updates.
Experience that would help
- Program operations for technical, research, or healthcare-related projects.
- Experience coordinating dependencies and maintaining accurate operational records.
- Comfort escalating uncertainty and turning decisions into clear next steps.
The contribution: Help partners and internal teams share an accurate view of what is ready, blocked, changed, or delivered.
This is a planned role direction for our talent network, not an approved vacancy. Scope, location, work arrangement, compensation, and timing would be confirmed for a specific opening.
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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
A thoughtful
first conversation.
- 01
Tell us what you know.
Share a role direction, location preference, and a short account of relevant work. A public profile or portfolio is optional.
- 02
We consider the fit.
We may contact you when a defined need matches your experience. Joining the network does not guarantee an interview or an offer.
- 03
Agree on the specifics.
For an active opportunity, we would confirm responsibilities, compensation, location, employment or contract arrangements, and the selection process before proceeding.
BRING YOUR PERSPECTIVE
What would you
help us build?
We’re interested in the work you have done and the questions you want to pursue. Tell us how your experience could contribute to surgical data, clinical collaboration, or AI research.
This is an expression of interest in future opportunities. We are not publishing hiring timelines, pay ranges, benefits, or work-authorization commitments until a specific role is approved.
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