Child & Adolescent Physician / Developmental Expert (Contract)

The role

Physicians and developmental experts will help build a child safety benchmark for AI systems. You will evaluate how AI responds to children and teens regarding age-appropriate behavior, developmental risk, and safety.

What you will 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

Required qualifications

• 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
• Medical or doctoral degree

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 the company

Vals AI builds rigorous evaluations and benchmarks for frontier AI systems. Their work started from NLP evaluation research at Stanford.