[Remote] Adolescent Mental Health Clinical Expert (Contract)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vals AI is hiring an Adolescent Mental Health Clinical Expert to evaluate how AI systems respond in mental health and other clinically sensitive situations. The role reviews AI conversations for safety and quality, identifies risks, helps develop evaluation scenarios and criteria, and provides expert feedback on appropriate model behavior.

Responsibilities

• Review and rate AI conversations for clinical safety, appropriateness, and quality
• Identify clinically meaningful risks and model failure modes
• Help create realistic scenarios, evaluation criteria, and scoring rubrics
• Provide expert feedback on how AI should respond in sensitive situations
• Participate in calibration and review sessions with researchers and engineers
• Document important edge cases and emerging risks

Skills

• Clinical training and professional credentials are required, such as LCSW/LICSW, LMFT, LPC/LPCC/LCPC, clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, MD/DO, or comparable clinical mental health credentials
• Experience working directly with adolescent patients or clients in a mental health setting
• Strong grounding in clinical assessment, psychopathology, risk evaluation, or crisis response
• Strong written communication and clinical judgment
• Comfort reviewing sensitive mental health content and maintaining strict confidentiality
• No PhD or prior AI experience is required
• Experience with crisis intervention, suicide or self-harm assessment, or safety planning
• Experience developing clinical rating systems, assessment criteria, or coding frameworks
• Familiarity with AI, digital mental health, trust & safety, or conversational systems

Benefits

• Flexible, part-time role
• Remote work

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