Adolescent Mental Health Clinical Advisor, AI Safety

Job overview

The Adolescent Mental Health Clinical Advisor, AI Safety role is remote, with a commitment of 10–15 hours per week. Compensation is $80–$150 per hour. The role supports Mercor’s AI Safety Benchmark Project, which evaluates AI chatbot responses in mental health contexts. The advisor applies child and adolescent mental health expertise to create and review fictional clinical scenarios, refine evaluation rubrics, and assess AI-generated conversations. This work helps calibrate evaluation systems and inform safer assessment of AI behavior in sensitive mental health domains.

What you'll do

• Author fictionalized adolescent mental health case scenarios based on clinical expertise
• review scenarios for clinical realism, developmental appropriateness, and ethical considerations
• develop and refine clinician-informed evaluation rubrics
• review selected AI-generated conversations and provide expert judgment
• advise on assessment practices for suicide and self-harm, medical and therapeutic impersonation, and parasocial attachment and anthropomorphism.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

adolescent mental health clinical advisor

ai safety

remote

mercor

contract

$80–$150/hr

10–15 hours per week

child and adolescent mental health

clinical scenarios

ai evaluation

suicide prevention

self-harm assessment

clinical feedback

digital mental health

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Contract opportunity, remote, 10–15 hours per week. Requires an MD, DO, PhD, PsyD, or equivalent qualification in a related mental health field and clinical or research experience focused on children and adolescents.

About the employer

Mercor is hiring for this role. Industry: All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. Sector: 54.