Psychiatry Expert

About the Role

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality healthcare reasoning data. We're hiring Psychiatry experts to design clinical scenarios, evaluate model outputs against evidence-based standards, and help shape how the next generation of AI reasons about mental health care.

We welcome general adult Psychiatry attendings, Child & Adolescent, Addiction, Forensic, Consultation-Liaison, and Geriatric Psychiatry subspecialists, and final-year Psychiatry residents.

What You'll Do

• Design clinically realistic prompts and scenarios drawn from your Psychiatry practice (diagnostic formulation, medication management, risk assessment, psychotherapy fidelity, capacity evaluation)
• Write "golden" reference responses at attending-level quality
• Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics
• Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior
• Participate in onboarding office hours and specialty calibration sessions

Who You Are

• Attending physicians: Must be board certified with current, active, unrestricted medical license
• Resident physicians: Must be in final year of residency (recent graduates must be board-eligible)
• Fellows: Must be board-certified/board-eligible in primary specialty and have current active, unrestricted medical license

Rates

$150–$350/hr payable, set per seniority tier (early-career → senior attending). Your specific rate is confirmed in your offer.

Engagement

• Remote, 100% asynchronous
• 20 hrs/wk default (can be raised after onboarding based on demand)
• Paid weekly via Mercor
• Start: rolling, after onboarding sign-off
• Duration: ongoing, reviewed monthly

Before Your First Task

You'll receive an onboarding doc and a calendar invite for Onboarding Office Hours after you accept.