Mental Health Writer, Actor – Part-Time
Posted 5ds ago
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Job Description
Part-time mental health writers or actors needed for AI safety initiatives. Role involves creating and performing clinical scenarios with AI agents in mental health contexts.
Responsibilities:
- Design and role-play chat experiences with AI agents across diverse clinical and emotional scenarios
- Perform or simulate characters across ages, backgrounds, severity levels, and emotional states (spoken or written)
- Write dialogue scripts, scenario outlines, or narrative prompts for testing edge cases in mental-health contexts
- Conduct qualitative analyses of conversations to derive taxonomies, personas, and behavioral patterns
- Translate clinical expertise into structured prompt patterns and evaluation rubrics
- Provide expert clinical feedback on internal mental-health policy development
- Collaborate with engineering and research teams to define evaluation metrics for tone, psychological validity, and appropriateness
- Identify and document failure cases, risk signals, and edge behaviors
- Contribute to scenario modeling, red teaming, and rapid experimentation cycles
- Ensure all work adheres to strict confidentiality agreements and NDAs
- Implement quality-assurance protocols for conversation and behavioral analysis
- Participate in review sessions with engineers, researchers, and clinical consultants
Requirements:
- Knowledge of crisis intervention, risk assessment, and safety planning
- Demonstrated experience in creative writing, theatre, improv, acting, voice acting, or character-driven role-play
- Interest in NLP, AI, ML, safety evaluation, or speech-signal processing
- Strong understanding of mental-health ethics, boundaries, and responsible handling of sensitive data
- Ability to telecommute and use Slack, LLM tools (trainable), and Microsoft 365
- Comfort with ambiguity, iteration, and emerging technology
- Ability to integrate constructive feedback
- Clinical experience with severe pathology, crisis populations, individuals experiencing mental-health crises, and vulnerable youth or young adults
- In-progress or completed clinical degree or independent licensure (e.g., Clinical Psychology, Counseling, Social Work, Psychiatry, or related field)
- Participation or familiarity with Discord, Reddit, gaming communities, or narrative role-play environments
- Background in trust & safety, content moderation, or policy development
- Experience with AI/ML in clinical or healthcare settings
- Experience with data classification, annotation, or qualitative analysis projects
















