Senior Behavioral Health Consultant

About The Role

We are looking to expand our network of expert behavioral health consultants with Senior Behavioral Health Experts for part-time, fully remote work supporting frontier AI research. Projects start at $80–120 USD/hour
, with top-performing experts on our platform earning $150+ USD/hour.

• Designing expert-level behavioral health scenarios, evaluations, and judgment tasks that today’s leading AI models struggle with.
• Evaluating and pressure-testing frontier AI systems in sensitive, high-stakes mental health contexts.

This is not therapy delivery, tutoring, or generic annotation work.

At Aligned, we partner with the world's leading AI labs to push the frontier of AI knowledge in fields like STEM, medicine, law, and finance. Our platform matches subject‑matter experts (like you) with paid consulting work on frontier projects at these labs. Unlike low‑skill freelance work on traditional consulting platforms, our community of experts set their own rates and are exclusively matched to the highest impact, top‑paying projects in the industry.

You are a senior behavioral health professional with deep experience applying clinical judgment, ethical reasoning, or system‑level mental health expertise in complex, real‑world settings.

• Senior Clinician
• Clinical Director
• Program Director
• Chief Psychologist
• Department Head
• or equivalent level.

• Psychologists and behavioral health leaders at government and public health institutions (NIMH, NIH, VA, CDC, SAMHSA, NHS, etc.)
• Behavioral health professionals in military or defense health systems (Walter Reed, Defense Health Agency, Armed Forces Health Services, etc.)
• Clinicians and leaders at premier psychiatric hospitals and academic medical centers (McLean Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Mass General, Maudsley Hospital, etc.)
• Directors and senior clinicians in crisis intervention, suicide prevention, or safety assessment organizations (Crisis Text Line, Lifeline, Trevor Project, SAMHSA programs, etc.)
• Behavioral health experts in digital mental health, telehealth, or AI‑adjacent organizations (Headspace Health, Lyra Health, Spring Health, Woebot, academic AI ethics centers, etc.)
• Professionals with experience in clinical governance, ethics, risk assessment, policy, or systems‑level behavioral health design.

• Fluent English reading and writing skills
• 5+ years of experience in clinical psychology, behavioral health, psychiatry, or closely related fields
• Demonstrated ability to apply expert judgment in complex, ambiguous, or high‑risk mental health scenarios
• Track record of work with recognized institutions, healthcare systems, or public‑facing programs
• Advanced degree (PhD, PsyD, MD, or equivalent) preferred but not required; equivalent senior experience strongly considered