# Clinical Research Coordinator (Surgical)

**Company:** [Preload](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-companies/preload)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Work mode:** On-site
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 150K–225K/yr
**Category:** Medical science
**Department:** Operations
**Listed:** 2026-11-10

[View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/clinical-research-coordinator-surgical-121726)

## What you'll do

- Prepare and manage IRB submissions, amendments, and renewals
- Own informed consent processes and participant documentation
- Ensure HIPAA compliance and secure clinical data handling
- Coordinate hospital sites, surgeons, and research staff logistics
- Build scalable study protocols for new partner sites

## What you need

- 2+ yrs as a clinical research coordinator
- Hands-on IRB, informed consent, and HIPAA experience
- Hospital, surgeon, or academic medical center background
- CCRC or CCRP certification preferred
- Medical device or surgical research experience preferred

## Job description

**About Preload**

Preload builds the data layer for physical AI. Robots learn mostly from video, but human interaction is much richer: touch, force, and muscle activity. We build a wearable multimodal stack (egocentric video, tactile gloves, EMG) to capture how people actually interact with the physical world, and turn it into datasets robotics teams can train on. We're a YC (F26) team of PhD founders from Johns Hopkins and Caltech with backgrounds at Neuralink, Paradromics, and other neurotech companies.

**The role**

You'll own the regulatory and coordination side of our surgical data program: getting studies approved, keeping them compliant, and making hospital partnerships run smoothly so our field team can focus on collecting great data.

**What you'll do**

-   Prepare and manage IRB submissions, amendments, and renewals
-   Own informed consent processes and participant documentation
-   Ensure HIPAA compliance and secure handling of clinical data
-   Coordinate with hospital sites, surgeons, and research staff on approvals, scheduling, and logistics
-   Build study protocols and processes that scale to new partner sites

**What we're looking for**

-   2+ years as a clinical research coordinator or in a similar clinical research role
-   Hands-on experience with IRB processes, informed consent, and HIPAA
-   Experience working with hospitals, surgeons, or academic medical centers
-   Highly organized and comfortable managing many stakeholders
-   Experience with medical device studies or surgical research is a plus; CCRC/CCRP certification is a plus

**Flexibility**

We're open to part-time or contract arrangements to start for the right person.

**Why join**

Early, in-person team in San Francisco, with travel to partner sites. You'll build the foundation of our surgical data program.

## Other open roles at Preload

- [Summer 2027 Intern (Any Team)](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/summer-2027-intern-any-team-121727) — San Francisco, CA
- [Mechanical / Soft-Goods Designer (Wearables)](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/mechanical-soft-goods-designer-wearables-121725) — San Francisco, CA
- [Pitch Your Own Role](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/pitch-your-own-role-121724) — San Francisco, CA
- [Software Engineer, Data Platform](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/software-engineer-data-platform-121721) — San Francisco, CA
- [Sensor Engineer (Wearables)](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/sensor-engineer-wearables-121720) — San Francisco, CA

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