AfterQueryDomain experts
Psychiatrist Expert (Clinical Review)
$125/hr
About this role, in AfterQuery's words
Licensed psychiatrists to review how AI models handle psychiatric cases, and help write realistic cases.
What you'll do
Responsibilities
- Review AI model responses to psychiatric cases for diagnostic accuracy, treatment reasoning and risk handling
- Explain clearly where a response goes wrong and what a licensed psychiatrist would do instead
- For some contributors, help write realistic clinical vignettes and reference responses
Candidate background
Who this is for
- MD or DO from a US institution
- Active US medical license (full or training license), practicing or training in psychiatry in the US
- Attending psychiatrists, and residents or fellows in a US psychiatry program, are both welcome. All subspecialties welcome
- You can write clinical reasoning clearly enough for another psychiatrist to follow it
Required qualifications
- MD or DO from a US institution
- Active US medical license (full or training license)
- Currently practicing or training in psychiatry in the US
- Clear written English for documenting clinical reasoning
Preferred qualifications
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- Experience with psychopharmacology, risk assessment or emergency and inpatient psychiatry
- Experience teaching residents or writing clinical or board-review content
- Interest in how AI handles mental health conversations
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in AfterQuery's words
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Licensed psychiatrists to review how AI models handle psychiatric cases, and help write realistic cases.
AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve how their models handle mental health. We're bringing on licensed psychiatrists for a 3 week review project starting this month.
What you'll actually do
• Review how AI models respond to psychiatric cases, and judge whether they got the diagnosis, treatment reasoning, medication considerations and risk handling right
• Explain clearly where a response goes wrong and what a licensed psychiatrist would do instead
• For some contributors, help write realistic clinical vignettes and reference responses
Who this is for
• MD or DO from a US institution
• Active US medical license (full or training license), practicing or training in psychiatry in the US
• Attending psychiatrists, and residents or fellows in a US psychiatry program, are both welcome. All subspecialties welcome
• You can write clinical reasoning clearly enough for another psychiatrist to follow it
Contract and pay
• $125/hr , paid weekly via Stripe
• Remote and fully async. No fixed hours, work as much or as little as fits around your clinical schedule
• No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers
• Independent contractor
How our hiring process works
• Apply at /apply/psychiatrist-clinical-review. About five minutes. Resume plus your license details.
• Review. Every application is read and gets a decision.
• Onboarding. Complete ID verification, sign the contractor agreement, connect Stripe, and get platform access.
About AfterQuery
AfterQuery is an expert data lab. We build the evaluation and training data that frontier AI labs use to make their models more capable and safer.
Responsibilities - Review AI model responses to psychiatric cases for diagnostic accuracy, treatment reasoning and risk handling - Explain clearly where a response goes wrong and what a licensed psychiatrist would do instead - For some contributors, help write realistic clinical vignettes and reference responses
Required qualifications - MD or DO from a US institution - Active US medical license (full or training license) - Currently practicing or training in psychiatry in the US - Clear written English for documenting clinical reasoning
Preferred qualifications - Experience with psychopharmacology, risk assessment or emergency and inpatient psychiatry - Experience teaching residents or writing clinical or board-review content - Interest in how AI handles mental health conversations
Why apply - $125/hr, paid weekly via Stripe - Fully remote and async, with hours you choose - Your clinical judgment shapes how AI models handle mental health safely
Working with AfterQueryPay, getting started and work, from AfterQuery's own pages
What the platform publishes in general. These are not extra terms confirmed for this particular role.
- Getting paid
- Approved work is paid every Friday for the prior week, by Stripe to a bank account, with no fees. Stripe holds the first payout for 7 days. docs.afterquery.com/articles/payments-taxes/payment-setup
- Before your first paid task
- One assessment per expert pool, unpaid and with no retake. Onboarding takes about 10 minutes: legal documents, phone, ID through Persona, and payments. docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/assessments, docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/complete-your-onb...
- How much work
- Projects are assigned by assessment fit as they come up, and higher-rated contributors get priority. docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/assessments, docs.afterquery.com/articles/about/contract-work
- Contract
- Independent contractor. Most contractors register as individuals. docs.afterquery.com/articles/about/contract-work, docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/complete-your-onb...
Read on the pages linked above on 23 Sep 2026. Platforms change these terms, so check the linked page before you rely on one.
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Pay across the field: Domain experts
Across 698 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 18 platforms, the middle half pays $65 to $130 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $100. This role's top rate, $125, is in the middle half. Of the 260 distinct rates we count, 187 are lower and 68 are higher.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Alignerr | 149 | $24 to $200 · median $80 |
| micro1 | 136 | $28 to $400 · median $110 |
| AfterQuery (this platform) | 87 | $45 to $175 · median $100 |
| Handshake AI | 79 | $30 to $300 · median $85 |
| Mercor | 78 | $55 to $450 · median $120 |
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This listing's history
- First seen here on 6 Oct 2026, and still on AfterQuery's list when we last read it on 12 Oct 2026.
- The listed pay has not changed since then.
- Posted by AfterQuery
- First seen by AIPayList
- Last seen live
- Listing ID
- 1791260295385
Pay as the source states it: “$125/hr”.
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