Clinical AI Research Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Australia.

📋 Description

• Analyze and assess AI-generated outputs related to meditation, wellbeing, mental health, sleep, anxiety, stress, and behavior change.

• Determine if AI outputs are clinically appropriate, evidence-based, safe, clear, and beneficial for real-world users.

• Review the strength and quality of evidence surrounding wellbeing, meditation, and psychotherapeutic techniques, noting their limitations and contraindications.

• Assist in defining frameworks for evaluating indications, contraindications, risk, evidence quality, internal and external validity, and real-world applicability.

• Collaborate with engineers and product teams to enhance prompts, AI workflows, evaluations, and user-oriented wellbeing experiences.

• Convert clinical, psychological, and research concepts into actionable product guidance for engineers and designers.

• Aid in establishing internal evaluation systems for AI outputs, including rubrics, review processes, and quality standards.

• Contribute to the creation of safe, high-quality AI experiences rooted in meditation, wellbeing, and mental health expertise.

• Support the development of structured content and intervention pathways in areas such as sleep, anxiety, stress, mindfulness, and emotional wellbeing.

• Identify where AI outputs lack support, are overstated, unsafe, unclear, or misaligned with the best available evidence.

• Collaborate with both internal and external researchers on studies, evidence reviews, and potential peer-reviewed publications.

• Influence Insight Timer’s wider research agenda related to meditation, wellbeing, mental health, AI, and consumer health products.

⛳️ Requirements

• You possess strong expertise in clinical, psychological, behavioral science, or mental health research.

• You may hold a PhD, be in the process of completing one, or have equivalent clinical and research experience.

• You could be an academic researcher, clinician-researcher, psychologist, psychiatrist, behavioral scientist, meditation researcher, or wellbeing researcher.

• You are knowledgeable about evaluating evidence, including study quality, internal and external validity, strength of findings, and real-world limitations.

• You can thoughtfully consider indications, contraindications, safety, and the practical implications of wellbeing or mental health recommendations.

• You have familiarity with meditation, mindfulness, contemplative practices, psychotherapy, behavior change, or related wellbeing techniques.

• You are adept at navigating ambiguity and can provide structure to complex, interdisciplinary challenges.

• You have an interest in AI and are prepared to work directly with prompts, model outputs, evaluation systems, and product workflows.

• You can communicate effectively with engineers, product managers, designers, researchers, and non-clinical stakeholders.

• You demonstrate sound judgment and can discern when something is evidence-based, speculative, overstated, risky, or unclear.

• You are motivated by the opportunity to work on products that impact millions of people, rather than solely engaging in internal research or academic pursuits.

• You are passionate about helping individuals lead healthier, calmer, and more meaningful lives.

🏝️ Benefits

• We provide competitive salaries and options.

• This role is fully remote, though candidates must be based in Australia.

• Additional leave days are available for your personal well-being and birthday.

• A generous learning and development budget and wellbeing bonus are included.

• We organize a global company retreat every other year.