Emotional Distress Clinical Specialist | Safety Project

We are opening a freelance opportunity for the Safety Project Emotional Distress (Clinical track), a project focused on evaluating how AI systems respond in sensitive conversations involving emotional distress, suicidal ideation, and depression. The goal of this project is to assess whether the AI can respond with empathy, responsibility, and appropriate safety awareness in high-risk emotional scenarios.

In this track, selected contributors will perform two complementary activities:

Role-play — participate in structured multi-turn conversations with an AI system, acting according to a predefined persona and scenario representative of real clinical presentations.

Evaluation — review AI responses against clinical criteria, assessing risk recognition, appropriateness of safety messaging, empathy, accuracy of psychoeducation, and adherence to evidence-based crisis-response practices.

This dual contribution is what makes the clinical track distinct: we need professionals who can both embody a sensitive scenario and judge the AI's response with clinical rigor.

What you'll do

Conduct role-play sessions as a clinically informed persona across multi-turn conversations

Evaluate AI responses for safety, empathy, clinical appropriateness, and risk handling

Provide structured written feedback grounded in clinical reasoning

Flag responses that miss risk signals, give unsafe guidance, or fall short of best-practice crisis communication

Who can apply

Licensed or formally trained professionals in psychiatry, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, psychiatric nursing, or related mental health fields — including those working in crisis centers, helplines, or other mental health support environments. Experience in suicide prevention, crisis intervention, or risk assessment is highly valued.

Profiles we're looking for

Psychiatry or psychiatric nursing

Clinical or counseling psychology

Crisis intervention or suicide prevention specialists

Social work focused on mental health

Helpline or support center professionals (clinical role)

Emotional health coaching or therapy with formal training

Researchers or educators in mental health and risk assessment

Fluent or Advanced proficiency in english

Compensation

Payment is made per approved task: US $40 per approved task. Each task takes approximately 1 hour to complete. Only approved tasks are eligible for payment.

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote opportunity that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Opportunities can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your participation will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are processed weekly based on services rendered.
• We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.