Part Time Clinical Roleplay and Red Team Expert

Mpathic

Mpathic

United States

USD 75-200 / hour

Posted 6+ months ago

Position Overview:

mpathic is looking for a part-time project manager to join our team. This role will report to the Project Manager of AI Safety & Mental Health Policy Implementation (open position) overseen by the VP of Clinical AI (Megan Greenlaw).

We are seeking an experienced clinician that has worked with any of the following: severe mental health disorders, on inpatient units, private practice or community mental health focusing on treatment of PTSD, BPD, Bipolar, Schizophrenia, Depression, Suicide, issues facing LGBTQ, and experience with youth and teens.

We are looking for clinicians to collaborate on a confidential initiative focused on AI safety protocols and mental health policy implementation for large language models (LLMs). This role involves role playing clinical scenarios while talking to AI agents, red teaming, identifying behavioral edge cases, and ensuring appropriate identification and support of users experiencing psychological distress or exhibiting concerning behavioral patterns. This role may also involve developing behavioral taxonomies and analyses. Attention to safety and ethics and awareness of state-of-the-art guidance on AI agents in clinical settings is a key component of this role.

This role requires a background in Psychology or related fields and experience working with LLMs or prompt engineering. Successful candidates will have a track record of being a proactive, reliable person that balances solving problems on their own and consulting with supervisors. Consistency, communication, reliability, and follow through are important at mpathic.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design chat experiences with AI agents role playing in different clinical scenarios
  • Conduct qualitative analyses of conversations to derive taxonomies, personas and behavioral analysis of different types of responses
  • Synthesize domain expertise into structured prompt patterns and evaluation rubrics.
  • Provide expert clinical feedback on internal mental health policy development and modifications
  • Collaborate across teams to define evaluation metrics for psychological validity, tone, and appropriateness
  • Identify and document failure cases, edge behaviors, and model inconsistencies.
  • Contribute to rapid experimentation cycles and fine-tuning through targeted test sets and scenario modeling
  • Ensure all work adheres to strict confidentiality agreements and NDAs
  • Implement quality assurance protocols for conversation analysis
  • Participate in collaborative review sessions with engineers, researchers, and clinical consultants.

We require:

  • Master's or Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Social Work, Psychiatry, or related mental health field
  • Minimum of 5 years of clinical experience working with individuals experiencing mental health crises and severe pathology or similar exposure
  • Knowledge of crisis intervention techniques and risk assessment
  • Demonstrated familiarity with AI tools and large language models (LLMs)
  • Strong understanding of mental health ethics and confidentiality requirements; history of responsible handling of sensitive data
  • Ability to telecommute (e.g., internet and computer setup) and familiarity with multiple technologies including Slack, LLM chat tools and agents, and Google Workspace
  • Tolerates ambiguity and has tools for working through those moments of discomfort
  • Seeks out and integrates constructive feedback

Above and beyond:

  • Preference for clinicians who are a part of internet communities on Discord, Reddit and gaming communities and those have deep interest in AI, chatGPT and other chat-based AI tools (Character.ai, Replika etc).
  • Preference for creative clinicians that have experience in role play, theatre, and conversational design for online agents.
  • Background in trust and safety, content moderation or safety protocol development
  • Clinical experience with vulnerable youth and young adults
  • Experience with AI/ML applications in healthcare or mental health settings; Interest in NLP, AI, ML, speech signal processing and other automated systems of assessing human behavior
  • Experience with data classification and analysis projects

Compensation: $75-200/hr, dependent on licensure, years of education, and commensurate with experience

Additional Requirements:

  • Must be willing to sign comprehensive NDA and confidentiality agreements
  • Comfortable working with sensitive mental health content
  • Recurrent occasional team meetings and project coordination calls

To Apply: Please submit your resume along with a brief cover letter describing your relevant clinical experience and familiarity with AI technologies.