Revolutionmedicines
OpenSafety Operations Physician
- Location
- Redwood City, California, United States
- Posted
- Jul 6, 2026
About the role
Revolution Medicines is a late-stage clinical oncology company developing novel targeted therapies for patients with RAS-addicted cancers. The company’s R&D pipeline comprises RAS(ON) inhibitors designed to suppress diverse oncogenic variants of RAS proteins. The company’s RAS(ON) inhibitors daraxonrasib (RMC-6236), a RAS(ON) multi-selective inhibitor; elironrasib (RMC-6291), a RAS(ON) G12C-selective inhibitor; zoldonrasib (RMC-9805), a RAS(ON) G12D-selective inhibitor; and RMC-5127, a RAS(ON) G12V-selective inhibitor, are currently in clinical development. As a new member of the Revolution Medicines team, you will join other outstanding professionals in a tireless commitment to patients with cancers harboring mutations in the RAS signaling pathway.
The Opportunity:
The Medical Review Physician plays a critical role in ensuring the safety of pharmaceutical products across their lifecycle by providing medical oversight of safety data, including clinical trials and post-marketing surveillance. This role sits at the intersection of clinical safety and data analysis, translating safety information into actionable insights that protect patients and inform benefit–risk decisions.
Responsibilities:
Medical Review & Case Assessment
• Serves as a safety medical expert to evaluate Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSRs) and perform medical review of Serious Adverse Events (SAEs) from various sources, including clinical trials, literature, and post-marketing sources.
• Assess causality, seriousness, and expectedness of adverse events using clinical judgment and regulatory frameworks.
• Ensure accurate medical evaluation, coding (e.g., MedDRA), and completeness of safety data.
• Review case narrative and medical contents for completeness, identify missing medical information or key data that impact medical understanding and evaluation of the case, and issue safety medical queries.
• Review and approve the Analysis of Similar Events and provide company comments and assessment with medical analysis for SUSAR/IND Safety Reports.
• Provide overall case assessment and pharmacovigilance comment on ICSRs as needed.
Leadership
• Provide medical leadership for case review activities across Global Patient Safety, including prioritization and oversight of medically significant or complex safety cases.
• Serve as a key escalation point for case-level medical issues, advising Product Safety Lead Physicians, Safety Scientists, Medical Monitors, and Safety Operations partners as needed.
• Help shape a consistent, high-quality approach to medical review by mentoring new team members and sharing best practices in clinical assessment, causality, expectedness, and case interpretation.
• Lead or support training for internal teams and vendors involved in medical review activities to strengthen quality, consistency, and inspection readiness.
• Contribute medical expertise to cross-functional initiatives, process improvements, and governance discussions related to patient safety and pharmacovigilance operations.
• Act as a subject matter expert for medical review during audits, inspections, and other quality or compliance-related activities.
• Drive accountability and excellence in medical review by identifying trends, recommending improvements, and partnering across functions to resolve issues efficiently.
Cross-functional Collaboration
• Partner with Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Biostatistics, Safety Science, Safety Surveillance, and Safety Operations.
• Collaborate with Safety Science for signal detection activities and risk management planning, as required.
• Serve as a medical safety expert on cross-functional teams and governance forums.
• Communicate safety findings and recommendations to internal and external stakeholders.
Compliance & Quality
• Ensure compliance with global pharmacovigilance regulations and guidance, including applicable FDA, EMA, ICH, and GVP requirements.
• Partner closely with GPS Quality to establish, implement, and continuously improve quality management system frameworks supporting medical review activities.
• Contribute to the development, maintenance, and periodic review of SOPs, work instructions, standards, and controlled documents governing medical review processes.
• Support the design and execution of quality oversight for medical review, including case-level quality review, trend analysis, issue escalation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Perform or support periodic review of adverse event line listings and other quality outputs to identify inconsistencies in event capture, coding, seriousness, expectedness, and causality assessments.
• Analyze quality and compliance metrics, perform root cause analyses for identified issues, and help drive corrective and preventive actions in partnership with GPS Quality and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Participate in inspections, audits, and inspection readiness activities, serving as a medical review subject matter expert as needed.
• Promote a quality-focused culture by embedding inspection readiness, documentation standards, and process discipline into day-to-day medical review operations.
Required Skills, Experience and Education:
• MD, DO, or international equivalent.
• Clinical training with strong medical judgment and diagnostic skills.
• Experience in pharmacovigilance, drug safety, or clinical development.
• Knowledge of global safety regulations (ICH, GVP, FDA, EMA).
• Experience reviewing ICSRs and performing causality assessments.
• Strong clinical reasoning and ability to interpret complex safety data.
• Understanding of drug safety lifecycle and benefit–risk evaluation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work cross-functionally in a global, matrixed environment.
• Attention to detail, quality, and regulatory compliance.
Preferred Skills:
• 5–8+ years of experience in pharmacovigilance or drug safety.
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