Adolescent Mental Health Clinical Expert (Contract)

The Role: Defining the Clinical AI Guardrails

As an Adolescent Mental Health Clinical Expert at Vals AI, you will serve as a vital bridge between high-level psychiatric care and the future of artificial intelligence. Instead of traditional practice, you will apply your diagnostic intuition to evaluate how frontier LLMs handle sensitive adolescent interactions. You will collaborate directly with engineers to identify model failure modes and create the scoring systems that define what a 'safe' AI response actually looks like.

Why This Matters for the AI Ecosystem

Vals AI is pioneering the benchmarks that the entire industry uses to measure model quality—including the tools used by vibe coders worldwide. Your work ensures that as we move toward natural language programming and AI-driven healthcare, the underlying models are grounded in professional clinical judgment. This is a chance to move from the clinic to the cutting edge of AI evaluation.

Core Responsibilities

• Model Auditing: Reviewing AI-generated dialogues to ensure they meet high clinical standards and identifying where the 'vibe' or logic fails.
• Benchmark Creation: Developing the rubrics and hypothetical scenarios that researchers use to test new iterations of Claude, GPT, and other frontier models.
• Safety Engineering: Documenting edge cases and emerging risks to prevent AI systems from providing harmful or inaccurate mental health advice.