Licensed Clinical Social Worker Expert

About the role

<p>LCSWs to build the clinical social work scenarios frontier AI labs use to test model judgment and safety.</p>

<p>AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We're hiring licensed clinical social workers as contractors to author and grade the clinical scenarios those evaluations run on.</p>

<p><strong>What you'll actually do</strong></p>

<ul><li>Author realistic scenarios: intake, safety planning, resource navigation, ethical dilemmas</li><li>Write reference responses with the clinical judgment behind each decision</li><li>Grade model output for clinical accuracy, ethics, and risk handling</li><li>Flag advice that sounds supportive but fails a real client, and say precisely why</li></ul>

<p><strong>Who this is for</strong></p>

<ul><li>Active, unencumbered LCSW license</li><li>2+ years of clinical practice after licensure</li><li>Real experience with case conceptualization, safety planning, and crisis work</li><li>You can write clinical reasoning clearly enough for another clinician to follow it</li></ul>

<p><strong>Contract and pay</strong></p>

<ul><li><strong>$70 to $105/hr</strong>, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.</li><li>Remote, async. Fully remote, fully async. No fixed hours.</li><li>Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week.</li><li>No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.</li><li>Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.</li></ul>

Why apply

• $70 to $105/hr, paid hourly via Stripe
• 100% remote and fully async with no caseload
• Shape how frontier models handle mental health and social services safely
• Ongoing project work with hours you set each week

Responsibilities

• Author realistic scenarios: intake, safety planning, resource navigation, ethical dilemmas
• Write reference responses with the clinical judgment behind each decision
• Grade model output for clinical accuracy, ethics, and risk handling
• Flag advice that sounds supportive but fails a real client, and say precisely why

Required qualifications

• Active, unencumbered LCSW license (US)
• 2+ years of clinical practice after licensure
• Case conceptualization, safety planning, and crisis intervention experience
• Clear written English for clinical documentation
• Able to commit at least 10 hours per week

Preferred qualifications

• Medical, school, or child welfare setting experience
• Clinical supervision of associate level clinicians
• Evidence based modality training (CBT, DBT, EMDR, MI)