Cureus Careers

What are we?

Based in San Francisco, California, Cureus is an online medical journal published by Springer Nature. Cureus leverages the power of an online community platform to share and promote published Open Access medical knowledge around the world. The result? Better research, faster publication and easier access for everyone.

Cureus was founded with the goal of eliminating barriers to the publication and dissemination of medical science, thereby providing clinicians and researchers with equal opportunity and access to legitimate, peer-reviewed research regardless of their perceived status. Our business model revolves around revenue generated by our paid editing service, digital advertising, and hosting Cureus channels and publishing competitions.

Who are we?

We are a tight-knit group that hires smart people and trusts them to do their best to meet goals. We check egos and entitlement at the door, but welcome intellectual honesty. We take pride in our work to drive change and challenge the status quo. We're here to solve a big problem in the publishing industry, and we're passionate about creating remarkable experiences and products for our customers.

Where are we?

While our roots are in San Francisco, we’re a fully remote team that values the flexibility, productivity, and work–life balance remote work enables.

Benefits

Available Cureus Careers

We offer a wide range of scientific publishing services jobs and support roles to help us accomplish our mission.

Lead Software Engineer

Remote - Full-time

Must reside in Alabama, California, Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Washington, or Washington DC

Who are you?

You’re a seasoned full-stack engineer who has spent years shipping production systems and owning real outcomes. You’re comfortable working across the stack from database design to frontend UX, and you collaborate closely with product to turn ideas into reliable, scalable features.

Job Description

Design, build, and own the systems that power the Cureus academic publishing platform. You’ll work closely with product, editorial, and design teams to shape features from idea to production, while ensuring performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

You will:

• Own features end-to-end, from early product discussions through implementation, deployment, and iteration.
• Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to design solutions and make technical decisions.
• Build and scale backend systems using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.
• Own the full frontend stack, React, HAML, and SCSS, working closely with designers to implement Figma mocks with precision.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code, including unit and integration tests, and contribute to strong code review practices.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across the stack (SQL, backend, frontend).
• Build LLM-powered features that ship to real users, agentic editorial workflows, intelligent search, content analysis, summarization. Help define what "production-grade AI" looks like at Cureus.
• Use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor) to accelerate development, debugging, and refactoring.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
• Lead larger projects by anticipating architectural needs and making sound tradeoffs.
• Maintain and improve system reliability, debugging and resolving production issues as needed.
• Work with AWS infrastructure (Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, S3, etc.) to deploy and operate systems at scale.

Qualifications

You have:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent experience building and operating production systems at scale), with strong hands-on experience in Ruby on Rails.
• Proven experience shipping and owning production systems end-to-end.
• Experience building production applications with React.
• Strong SQL skills and deep familiarity with PostgreSQL and Active Record.
• Experience working with AWS in a production environment.
• Hands on experience shipping at least one LLM-powered feature to production. You understand the basics of prompting, tool use, evals, and why AI features fail in ways that normal features don't.
• Experience writing tests in RSpec and maintaining code quality in a collaborative environment.
• Familiarity with modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot) and incorporating them effectively into your workflow.
• Comfortable working from high-level product direction and turning it into concrete technical solutions.
• Ability to move quickly and iterate without sacrificing code quality or long-term maintainability.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and communicate clearly with product and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of system design, tradeoffs, and scalable architecture.
• Mentorship experience, you raise the quality of the team around you.

Nice to have

• Experience with search technologies (Elasticsearch / OpenSearch).
• Experience with background job systems (e.g., Sidekiq).
• Experience with observability, logging, and performance monitoring.

Our environment

• Small, senior team with high ownership and minimal bureaucracy.
• Engineers are expected to contribute to product decisions, not just implementation.
• Fast iteration cycles with a focus on shipping and learning from production.

What we value

• Ownership: you take responsibility for what you build and how it performs in production.
• Product thinking: you understand the “why,” not just the implementation.
• Mentorship: you help others grow and make the team better.
• Curiosity: you explore new technologies (including AI) and apply them where they matter.

Details

The base salary range for this job is USD $150,000.00 - USD $190,000.00 /Yr.

Managing Editor

Remote - Full-time

Must reside in Alabama, California, Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Washington, or Washington DC

Job Description

As the Managing Editor you will be responsible for providing scientific guidance to our team of volunteer and freelance editors, leading the journal’s research integrity investigations, and overseeing special issues. As part of the editorial team, you will work with the Editor-in-Chief and Director of Publishing to guide and manage the editorial direction and quality of the journal. You will serve as a key link between the Director of Publishing and Editorial Operations Supervisors as you become an expert on various aspects of the Cureus platform. Cureus aims to improve the lives of clinicians and researchers by streamlining the academic publishing process - if you want to devise and deliver high-quality solutions that help to change the publishing status quo, then we want you!

Key Responsibilities

• Becoming an expert on Cureus publishing process to support authors, peer reviewers and editors
• Leading research integrity inquiries by investigating allegations, communicating with relevant parties, making preliminary assessments and recommendations in accordance with ICMJE and COPE guidelines
• Overseeing Cureus Collections, our version of special issues, including reviewing collection proposals and drafts, coordinating with guest editors, and managing ongoing collections
• Directly manage one team member while also working with Director of Publishing to identify issues in process and performance and problem-solve for potential solutions
• Communicating with external and internal stakeholders
• Reviewing medical science articles with regard to “good publishing practice”
• Staying up-to-date in the field of professional medicine as well as the market and competitive situation
• Making well-reasoned editorial decisions in line with expert advice and industry standards
• Partnering with cross-functional, internal teams on a regular basis
• Confidently expressing your ideas to improve & grow the team as we scale

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in a related field required (MD or PhD preferred)
• Author and peer review experience required
• Experience in academic editing or publishing
• Strong management and leadership skills
• Superb written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to multitask and juggle multiple projects
• Highly organized and detail-oriented

Salary and How to Apply

Salary range: $95,000 - $105,000

Please apply via our Indeed job posting found here.

Part-Time Content and Marketing Operations Specialist

Remote (US; overlap with Pacific time preferred)

We’re hiring a part-time marketer who can own our blog content and coordinate operations, help manage our SEO, social media content calendar, schedule content, and strengthen our lifecycle marketing program in HubSpot (workflows, segmentation, personalization, and newsletter optimization).

• Part-time: ~15–25 hours/week (flexible), with consistent weekly availability
• Potential to become full-time based on outcomes, fit, and team priorities

Responsibilities:

Blog & Social Media Content Calendar Management (Primary)

• Manage master content calendar: topics, deadlines, community outreach, and publishing cadence for organic social media channels, blog content, YouTube, etc.
• Write, edit, and publish blog posts that promote Cureus research, initiatives, and author education in Cureus’s voice.
• Organize and maintain blog structure: categories/tags, internal linking, CTAs, and content refreshes.
• Apply SEO best practices (search intent, on-page structure, metadata, keyword hygiene). Work with our SEO agency strategists to consistently optimize our SEO.
• Co-manage the social media calendar: plan weekly/monthly themes, use our viral article tool to detect strong article candidates to post, and maintain deadlines.
• Schedule social posts across our channels.
• Build repeatable content series (new research highlights, author resources, publishing tips, community spotlights).
• Coordinate with stakeholders to gather inputs, assets, and upcoming announcements and releases.
• Track performance and iterate on copy, formats, cadence, and CTAs.

Email Drafting, Editing, and Lifecycle Strategy in HubSpot

• Draft, edit, and QA emails in HubSpot: newsletters, email digests, dedicated sends
• Refine existing workflows: logic, timing, suppression rules, and enrollment criteria.
• Support segmentation and personalization strategy (specialty, role, engagement, geography, lifecycle stage).

Automation + Workflow Optimization

• Identify repetitive tasks and implement automation using Zapier (or similar tools).
• Document processes (SOPs) and maintain campaign ops hygiene.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong writing and editing skills (clarity, grammar, tone discipline)
• HubSpot Marketing Enterprise experience: email builder, lists/segmentation, workflows, content hub, and reporting
• Experience with Canva
• Experience managing content calendars
• Organized, detail-oriented, and deadline-driven
• SEO experience (keyword research + optimization)
• Zapier or other automation experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with or understanding of APIs/webhooks
• Experience in healthcare/science/academic publishing
• Basic HTML for email/CMS troubleshooting
• Wordpress experience

Compensation & Benefits:

Competitive hourly rate based on experience ($40 - $55/hr). This role is part-time initially, with a pathway to full-time.

How to Apply:

Submit your resume and 2–4 writing samples (blog posts, email campaigns, social posts/threads) or content portfolio to [email protected]. If you’ve managed a content calendar or built HubSpot workflows, include a brief summary of what you owned and what improved.

Job Type: Part-time

Social Media Marketing Internship

Remote

Do you want to help revolutionize and democratize a segment of the medical industry? If so, you’ve come to the right place. Cureus is looking for the right person to assist with our social media efforts. The ideal individual for this role has a strong interest in learning about social media strategy and helping implement daily social media functions across all of our channels: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Reddit. A familiarity with scheduling tools such as later.com is a plus. You should be organized, diligent, and detail focused. This is an unpaid internship that will provide rewarding experience in the social media and medical worlds.

Responsibilities:

• Search for aesthetically and medically appropriate stock images via Adobe Stock Photos
• Help search for and schedule content on our social media calendar
• Help organize social media spreadsheets
• Post daily within Facebook interest groups and subreddits
• Use content to create daily Instagram stories
• Search for and connect with our users on social media platforms

Minimum Qualifications:

• Current high school or college student
• Experience using social media platforms
• Experience using google suite (sheets, docs, etc…)
• Thrive in a self-starter, fast-paced and changing environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Work experience in social media and/or professional healthcare segment
• Passion for making a difference in the world through positive changes in healthcare

Minimum Commitment:

• This is a summer internship (that could turn into a longer term internship), so working through the end of August is required
• Minimum 7 hours per week commitment; ideally 15 hours per week

Job Type: Internship