Clinical Research Coordinator (Surgical)
San Francisco, CAFull-time$150–225K/yrSeen 1 day agoStill listed 1 day ago
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Job overview
Preload is seeking a Clinical Research Coordinator to own regulatory and coordination work for its surgical data program. The coordinator will support study approvals, compliance, and hospital partnerships so the field team can focus on data collection. The role is with an early, in-person team in San Francisco, with travel to partner sites. Part-time or contract arrangements may be considered to start for the right person.
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Full 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.
How this job compares
Set against the 622 open Clinical Research Coordinator jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$150–225K/yr
- US median$56–75K/yr161 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $188K, is 184% above the US median midpoint ($66K) — in the top quarter of Clinical Research Coordinator salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 95 open Clinical Research Coordinator jobs in California and 622 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Stanford University36 open
- Cedars-Sinai14 open
- UCLA Health9 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Clinical Research Coordinator postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (417 postings).
- Education
- 186 of the 622 open Clinical Research Coordinator jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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