Mental Health Expert (Contract)
Contract role for mental health experts to design AI safety tests, roleplay clinical scenarios with LLMs, and develop psychometrics and evaluation rubrics for AI-driven mental health tools.
- Compensation
- $30–$200 / hr
- Location
- Not listed
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Healthcare
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Graduate-level training (past or current) in psychology, counseling, social work, psychiatry, or related field
- Experience with crisis intervention, risk assessment, and severe psychopathology
- Familiarity with AI tools and LLMs
- Strong understanding of ethics and confidentiality
- Ability to work remotely and use Slack, LLM tools, and Microsoft Office
- Comfort with ambiguity and feedback-driven work
- Willingness to sign NDAs and work with sensitive content
- Availability up to 10 -40 hours per week when actively working on a project
Full description
About mpathic.ai
mpathic is keeping humans safe in the AI era through automated tools and expert datasets that are rooted in psychology and powered by clinicians.
We are a series A start-up backed by Tier 1 investors including Foundry.vc and Next Frontier Capital.
About the Role
mpathic is seeking contract, project-based mental health experts with experience in:
- Severe mental health conditions (e.g., PTSD, BPD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, suicidality)
- Inpatient, private practice, or community mental health settings
- Working with diverse populations (e.g., youth, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, people of color)
You will collaborate on confidential initiatives focused on AI safety and mental health policy for large language models (LLMs). Responsibilities include roleplaying clinical scenarios with AI agents, red teaming, identifying behavioral edge cases, and supporting accurate identification and response to psychological distress.
This role may also involve developing psychometrics, rubrics, behavioral taxonomies, and evaluations, with strict attention to ethics, safety, and current best practices in clinical AI.
What You’ll Be Doing
Responsibilities vary by project and may include:
- Designing and testing AI chat scenarios
- Conducting qualitative conversation analysis
- Developing behavioral taxonomies, personas, and evaluation rubrics
- Providing expert feedback on internal mental health policy
- Collaborating with engineers and researchers on safety metrics
- Documenting edge cases and model failures
- Supporting testing and fine-tuning through structured scenarios
- Maintaining strict confidentiality and QA standards
- Participating in interdisciplinary review sessions
What We're Looking For
Successful candidates are proactive, reliable, communicative, and comfortable balancing independent work with collaboration.
Basic Qualifications
- Graduate-level training (past or current) in psychology, counseling, social work, psychiatry, or related field
- Experience with crisis intervention, risk assessment, and severe psychopathology
- Familiarity with AI tools and LLMs
- Strong understanding of ethics and confidentiality