Behavioral Health Expert, AI Safety and Model Evaluation
Mercor Experts · United States · AI model evaluation
Behavioral Health Expert, AI Safety and Model Evaluation is an open role at Mercor Experts, located in United States, with pay listed as $45–$70/hr.
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At a glance
- Pay
- $45–$70/hrStated by Mercor Experts
- Location
- United States
- Work type
- AI model evaluation
- Field
- Safety
- Listed
- Since Oct 3, last confirmed Oct 22
How the pay compares
Higher than 56% of the 25 distinct hourly rates advertised for Safety roles right now. Hourly USD, top of each advertised range, one count per distinct rate. Same method as the Pay Index.
From Mercor Experts’ listing
“Help a leading AI lab ensure its models respond to people with care, balance and sound judgment. A leading AI lab is seeking behavioral health experts to help evaluate and improve how its AI models handle sensitive, everyday conversations.”
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Help a leading AI lab ensure its models respond to people with care, balance and sound judgment.
1. Overview
A leading AI lab is seeking behavioral health experts to help evaluate and improve how its AI models handle sensitive, everyday conversations. People increasingly turn to AI for support with relationships, family dynamics, emotional wellbeing, personal beliefs and difficult life decisions. These conversations rarely involve crisis content, but they are exactly where a model's judgment matters most: whether it stays balanced, avoids taking sides, resists telling people what they want to hear, respects a person's beliefs without endorsing or dismissing them, and understands the limits of its role. You'll review these interactions, assess whether the model's responses are appropriate, neutral and safe, and help the lab's researchers define what good looks like. If you bring professional experience in mental health, counseling, social work or behavioral science, and you can articulate clearly why one response serves a person better than another, this role is for you. This is a part-time commitment of at least 20 hours per week, with the option to increase to up to 40 hours per week.
This is a W-2 employment position with Cincinnatus LLC, with the opportunity to be placed at a leading AI lab as part of their extended workforce.
2. Key Responsibilities
- Evaluate conversations between users and AI models across topics such as relationship and family advice, emotional wellbeing, spiritual and metaphysical questions, and unconventional or unfounded beliefs, and assess whether responses are neutral, appropriate and safe.
- Identify patterns of concern, including excessive agreement, taking sides, reinforcing distorted or unfounded beliefs, moralizing, or overstepping into clinical or directive advice, and document them with clear written rationale.
- Develop rubrics, guidelines and reference responses that define a balanced, supportive and appropriate
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Frequently asked questions
How do I apply for the Behavioral Health Expert, AI Safety and Model Evaluation role at Mercor Experts?
Applications go through Mercor Experts's own portal - HumanSourcer links to the listing and never collects applications or handles hiring. Mercor Experts's access model is "Apply" (Profile / role application). This listing was first seen here on October 3, 2026 and was still live at the last check.
Is the Behavioral Health Expert, AI Safety and Model Evaluation role at Mercor Experts remote?
This role is listed for the United States.
What does the Behavioral Health Expert, AI Safety and Model Evaluation role at Mercor Experts pay?
Mercor Experts lists this role's pay as $45–$70/hr, quoted from the listing rather than estimated.
What kind of work is Behavioral Health Expert, AI Safety and Model Evaluation?
AI model evaluation. Law, medicine, finance, engineering, operations and AI evaluation
Is Mercor Experts a legitimate AI-training platform?
Direct expert network - and that relationship is rated "Confirmed" here because it can be checked against www.mercor.com rather than taken on Mercor Experts's word. Confidence describes how well the ownership is evidenced. It is not a rating of how the platform treats the people who work for it, which no public source covers reliably.
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