Join Vals AI as a Child & Adolescent Physician to evaluate AI systems for child safety in a flexible, part-time contract role.
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Last verified on the company career page 2 hours ago
What you'll build
- Design realistic scenarios across developmental stages
- Define evaluation criteria and scoring rubrics
- Review and rate AI conversations for risks
- Identify failure modes in AI responses
- Join calibration sessions with researchers and engineers
Must have
- MD/DO in child & adolescent psychiatry or related field
- PhD/PsyD in developmental psychology or related field
- Current or recent direct work with children or adolescents
- Strong clinical judgment and clear written communication
- Comfort reviewing sensitive content
Nice to have
- Child abuse or child protection evaluation experience
- Research on online safety or children and technology
- Experience building rating scales or assessment tools
AI in the day-to-day
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Requirements
- Education
- PhD
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, seniority, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Child & Adolescent Physician or Developmental Expert will evaluate AI systems for their interactions with children and adolescents, focusing on safety and developmental appropriateness. Candidates should possess a medical or doctoral degree in relevant fields and have experience working directly with youth, as well as strong clinical judgment. This position is ideal for professionals looking to apply their expertise in a part-time, contract capacity within a company that is advancing AI safety benchmarks.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 24, 2026. Last confirmed on Vals AI's careers page October 24, 2026.
Quick facts
- Is the Child & Adolescent Physician / Developmental Expert (Contract) role remote?
- Yes — Vals AI lists this as a fully remote position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Contract for this Child & Adolescent Physician / Developmental Expert (Contract) role at Vals AI.
From the original posting
About the Role
We're looking for physicians and developmental experts to help build a child safety benchmark for AI systems. You'll bring medical and developmental expertise to evaluating how AI responds to children and teens, including age-appropriate behavior, developmental risk, and situations involving safety or harm. This is a flexible, part-time contract for experts who want to apply their training to AI safety.
What You'll Do
Design realistic scenarios across developmental stages, from early childhood through adolescence
Define evaluation criteria and scoring rubrics for safe, age-appropriate AI behavior
Review and rate AI conversations for clinical, developmental, and safety risks
Identify failure modes, such as missed risk signals, inappropriate content, or advice that ignores developmental stage
Join calibration sessions with our researchers and engineers
Requirements
One of the following:
MD/DO in child & adolescent psychiatry, developmental-behavioral pediatrics, pediatrics, or adolescent medicine (board certified or board eligible)
PhD/PsyD in developmental psychology, clinical child psychology, or a closely related field, with clinical or research work on child development
Current or recent direct work with children or adolescents (clinical, research, or both)
Strong clinical judgment and clear written communication
Comfort reviewing sensitive content and maintaining strict confidentiality
This role requires a medical or doctoral degree. Master's-level clinicians (LPC, LCSW, LMFT) should apply to our Adolescent Mental Health Clinical Expert role instead
Nice to Have
Child abuse or child protection evaluation experience
Research on online safety, grooming or exploitation risk, or children and technology
Experience building rating scales, assessment tools, or coding frameworks
About Us
Vals AI builds rigorous evaluations and benchmarks for frontier AI systems. Our work started from NLP evaluation research at Stanford, and today we work across technical and domain-specific areas, including healthcare and mental health. Our team has backgrounds at Stanford, NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, HRT, Jane Street, and Snorkel.
We recently announced our $40M Series A at a $400M valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from existing investors 8VC, Pear VC, and Bloomberg and new investors Hudson River Trading and NextLadder Ventures.
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