Doctoral level degree relevant to therapeutic area (e.g., for CNS: Clinical Psychology PhD or PsyD or Psychiatry MD).
Moderate to extensive clinical experience with patients in relevant therapeutic areas
Knowledge of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric assessments, including patient reported outcome measures, inferential biostatistics, and medical terminology.
Experience with clinical research or pharmaceutical industry
Excellent planning/organizational skills and ability to prioritize and multitask
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and spoken, with an ability to inform, influence, convince, and persuade
Strong presentation skills, with experience presenting in professional settings.
Ability to travel as necessary (approximately 20%).
Benefits
Health insuranceDental insuranceVision insurance401(k)Paid time offFlexible scheduleEquity / stock optionsPerformance bonus
Additional Information
Clinical Scientist - Clinical Surveillance & Training (Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsychologist - Must Have)
Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.
Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you'll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to deliver - for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
Why Syneos Health
- We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
- We are committed to building an inclusive culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose - Driven to Deliver - which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone's life.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.
Job Responsibilities
Clinical Scientist
Join our Clinical Surveillance & Training (CST) team as a Clinical Scientist, where you will play a critical role in ensuring endpoint quality, data integrity, and trial success across global clinical programs. This is a highly visible, impact-driven role working at the intersection of science and clinical operations.
Core Responsibilities:
Lead Rater Training Excellence: Design and deliver scientifically grounded rater training programs to ensure consistent, high-quality endpoint assessment and reduce variability across sites.
Drive Patient Eligibility Quality: Perform comprehensive eligibility reviews, providing a second level of scientific oversight to confirm appropriate patient selection and minimize protocol deviations and safety risks.
Deliver Data-Driven Insights: Analyze clinical and endpoint data to identify trends, variability, and potential risks-translating findings into actionable insights that improve study execution.
Shape Protocol Strategy: Partner with sponsors and study teams to review protocols and provide expert guidance on endpoint strategy, scale selection, and study design feasibility.
Act as a Scientific Leader: Collaborate cross-functionally with clinical operations, medical, and sponsor teams to proactively identify risks and deliver solutions that protect study integrity.
Why this role matters:
Directly impacts data reliability, regulatory confidence, and trial outcomes
Enables smarter, faster decision-making through scientific insight and analytics
Plays a key role in delivering high-quality, successful clinical trials
Syneos Health · Usa, CA