Mental Health Professional at Turing

Mental Health Professional | Contractor | Worldwide Remote | 8-Week Engagement

Turing is seeking experienced Mental Health Professionals to evaluate and improve AI-generated content related to mental health and psychological well-being. In this role, you'll assess large language model (LLM) outputs for clinical accuracy, safety, and appropriateness — playing a meaningful part in building responsible AI that supports evidence-based mental health information.

About Turing

Based in San Francisco, Turing is the world's leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises deploying advanced AI systems. Turing helps accelerate frontier research with high-quality data, advanced training pipelines, and top AI researchers — and applies that expertise to help enterprises transform AI into reliable, impactful solutions.

What You'll Do

• Label emotional tone, mood indicators, stress markers, and wellbeing-related themes in conversational or written data.
• Apply validated clinical frameworks (e.g., PHQ-9-style constructs, sentiment/affect taxonomies) per project guidelines.
• Identify sensitive content requiring escalation — including crisis language and self-harm indicators — following established safety protocols.
• Ensure annotations reflect nuance, context, and cultural sensitivity around mental health topics.
• Contribute to refining annotation guidelines for ambiguous or borderline cases.
• Handle all sensitive content with strict confidentiality and professionalism.

Requirements

• Background in psychology, counseling, social work, or a related behavioral health field.
• Strong understanding of mental health terminology and common wellbeing frameworks.
• Emotional resilience and sound judgment when reviewing sensitive material.
• Ability to follow strict confidentiality and safety escalation protocols.
• Access to a MacBook is ideal.

Preferred Qualifications

• Clinical or counseling experience.
• Prior experience with content moderation or mental health data annotation.
• Training in trauma-informed approaches to reviewing sensitive content.

Engagement Details

• Type: Contractor / Freelancer (no medical or paid leave benefits)
• Duration: 8 weeks
• Work Environment: Fully remote and flexible

Why Work with Turing?

• Contribute to cutting-edge AI development in a meaningful domain.
• Gain exposure to advanced LLMs and insight into how they are trained.
• Flexible, fully remote engagement on your schedule.