Physiotherapist

Description

Summary: This role involves providing personalized patient care through chat/calls and assisting in clinical validation, with a focus on musculoskeletal disorders. Highlights: 1. Opportunity to contribute to pioneering AI Care in healthcare 2. Engage in personalized 1-to-1 patient support remotely 3. Support clinical validation of new therapeutic programs and products At Sword, we’re building AI to heal billions and unlock humanity’s full potential. In doing so, we’re pioneering AI Care, a fundamentally new approach to healthcare built for medical reasoning, safety, and real\-time treatment, not generic technology applied after the fact. As both a clinical\-centric frontier AI lab and an applied AI platform, Sword is reimagining how care is delivered at scale, removing traditional barriers like appointments, waiting rooms, and stigma so more people can access the care they need—and ultimately get back to lives lived in full. Since 2020, Sword has expanded across physical therapy, women’s health, cardiometabolic, and mental health, and is now moving beyond the session to a fully AI\-native, 24/7 care program that brings physical activity, therapeutic exercise, psychotherapy, nutrition, and behavior change into one connected experience. More than 700,000 members across three continents have completed over 10 million AI sessions, helping 1,000\+ enterprise clients avoid more than $1 billion in unnecessary healthcare costs. Backed by 42 clinical studies, 44\+ patents, and more than $500 million raised from leading investors including Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Founders Fund, Sword is defining a new standard for healthcare. We are hiring a Physiotherapist (PT), based in Portugal, motivated by delivering the best possible patient care. This PT will join our team and will work remotely within Portugal! If you'd like to be a part of what we're building, please apply. ### **What you’ll be doing** * This is a hybrid Contract Role full\-time (40 hours/week) or part\-time (min 20 hours/week), where you will be allocating time to specific tasks and projects, depending on business needs. This time will be split between: + *Patient care* - *Provide 1\-to\-1 support to members through message\-based chat and phone/video calls;* - *Apply our digital approach to surgical prehabilitation and the management of patients with musculoskeletal disorders;* - *Support the clinical validation of new therapeutic programs and products by assisting in data collection and testing.* + Clinical video annotations (high\-volume, repetitive work) - Watching exercise session recordings and scoring movement quality using Sword's clinical assessment framework – covering injury risk, movement effectiveness, range of motion, technique, and overall execution - Providing rep\-level assessments, session\-level summaries, and structured written feedback - Reviewing and quality\-checking assessments produced by other annotators on the team ### **What you need to have** * Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Physiotherapy; * A minimum of 3 years of clinical experience in the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders; * A passion for personalised care that recognises the whole person, and views good health as more than just the absence of disease; * Excellent interpersonal skills that come across even through a digital care workspace, translating in the ability to engage our members; * Hard\-working and able to handle the pressure of a fast\-paced environment; * A strong commitment to data security and privacy; * Comfortable with high\-volume, repetitive assessment work; * Strong attention to detail and ability to apply scoring criteria consistently; * Fluency in English (all clinical video annotation tasks are in English); * Reliable internet connection and a desktop or laptop computer; * Comfortable with web\-based tools (full training provided). **A plus if you have experience in:** * Completion of additional formal pelvic health education course(s), such as level 1 pelvic coursework (or equivalent); **Note:** Please note that this position does not offer relocation assistance. Candidates must possess a valid EU visa and be based in Portugal. Sword Health complies with applicable Federal and State civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of Age, Ancestry, Color, Citizenship, Gender, Gender expression, Gender identity, Gender information, Marital status, Medical condition, National origin, Physical or mental disability, Pregnancy, Race, Religion, Caste, Sexual orientation, and Veteran status. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.