Psychology Quality Assurance Lead

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AI training is the human side of building modern artificial intelligence. Expert reviewers help models produce more accurate, responsible, and useful responses by evaluating examples, identifying problems, and providing clear feedback.

• Work directly on cutting-edge AI systems
• Use subject-matter expertise to improve model behavior
• Contribute through flexible, remote project work

The Psychology Quality Assurance Lead Role

OpenTrain is recruiting a Psychology Quality Assurance Lead to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across psychology-focused AI training projects. You will review AI-generated psychology explanations, mental-health content, research summaries, behavioral guidance, and theory applications.

The role requires careful evaluation of accuracy, ethical awareness, mental-health safety, diagnostic caution, clarity, formatting, instruction-following, and rubric adherence. You will also help maintain safe, research-informed, and appropriately cautious psychology outputs across remote expert teams.

• Role type: Part-time contractor
• Location: United States only
• Schedule: 20 or more hours per week
• Availability: Flexible availability for future projects
• Pay: Up to $80 per hour
• Primary language: English
• Data type: Text
• Work type: Evaluation and rating

What You’ll Do

You will combine psychology expertise with structured quality review. Your feedback will help trainers and quality teams apply project guidelines consistently while reducing unsupported, unsafe, or ethically problematic content.

• Review psychology-focused AI content for quality and consistency
• Evaluate trainer and QA work against detailed rubrics
• Identify inaccurate, unsafe, unsupported, or insufficiently cautious claims
• Assess mental-health safety, ethical awareness, and diagnostic caution
• Provide clear written feedback and flag recurring issues
• Communicate guideline and workflow updates to trainers and QAs
• Support onboarding, documentation, calibration materials, and quality notes
• Help maintain style guides and improve quality workflows

Required Qualifications

This intermediate-level role is designed for a psychology or closely related subject-matter expert who can assess nuanced content and communicate decisions clearly in English.

• Strong background in psychology, clinical psychology, counseling, behavioral science, or a closely related field
• Strong grasp of English for clear written communication
• Experience with psychology research, mental-health content review, or related workflows
• Ability to evaluate work against detailed rubrics
• Ability to identify unsafe or unsupported claims
• Familiarity with CBT, behavioral interventions, mental-health literacy, research design, statistics, and ethical guidelines is a plus

Helpful Background

Experience coordinating expert review work can help you succeed in this lead role, particularly when supporting distributed teams and maintaining consistent quality standards.

• Experience leading or supporting remote teams
• Familiarity with psychology quality assurance
• Experience with LLM evaluation
• Experience with rubric-based review

Why This Work Matters

Psychology-focused AI outputs can affect how people understand behavior, mental health, and support options. Careful expert review helps ensure that model responses are clear, research-informed, ethically aware, and appropriately cautious.

• Apply psychology expertise to emerging AI systems
• Help improve the safety and reliability of mental-health content
• Support consistent standards across remote AI training teams
• Grow a specialized AI training portfolio with OpenTrain

How to Apply Through OpenTrain

Create a free OpenTrain account, build your profile around your psychology and quality assurance experience, and apply in minutes. OpenTrain helps professionals find and build careers in AI training and data labeling through flexible remote projects.

• Confirm that you are located in the United States
• Highlight psychology, research, mental-health review, and QA experience
• Show your ability to evaluate detailed rubrics and communicate written feedback
• Indicate your flexible availability for 20 or more hours per week