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AI Model Policy Trainer, Mental Health (Seattle)

Handshake · Seattle, WA · On-site

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About Handshake

Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.

About the role

As an AI Model Policy Trainer focused on mental health, you will help evaluate how conversational AI systems respond to people discussing emotional distress, mental-health conditions, unusual beliefs, possible crises, and other sensitive experiences.

More about this role

Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.

Handshake AI works directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and improve AI models through human expertise.

Employer: TCWGlobal. This is a W-2 assignment supporting Handshake AI.

Employment: Full time, 40 hours per week, non-exempt and eligible for overtime pay.

Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. PT.

As an AI Model Policy Trainer focused on mental health, you will help evaluate how conversational AI systems respond to people discussing emotional distress, mental-health conditions, unusual beliefs, possible crises, and other sensitive experiences.

You will review conversations and model behavior against a detailed mental-health safety policy. Your work will help determine whether an AI response is empathetic, appropriately grounded, and sensitive to risk without reinforcing unsupported or potentially harmful beliefs.

This work requires an understanding of why people turn to AI for conversation,...

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