Clinical AI Research Assistant

Insight Timer

Clinical AI Research Assistant working with Insight Timer to review AI outputs for mental health and wellbeing products. Focused on evaluation and research, supporting evidence-informed content improvements.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeRemote • 🇦🇺 AustraliaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Review AI-generated outputs related to meditation, wellbeing, mental health, sleep, anxiety, stress, and behavior change.
Score and label AI outputs using structured rubrics and evaluation frameworks.
Assess whether outputs are clear, safe, evidence-informed, clinically appropriate, and useful for real-world users.
Check claims against available evidence, including academic literature, clinical guidance, and internal research standards.
Identify recommendations that are unsafe, overstated, unsupported, vague, misleading, or poorly explained.
Flag potential issues related to indications, contraindications, evidence quality, risk, and real-world applicability.
Compare AI outputs across different prompts, workflows, models, or evaluation conditions.
Help prepare short research summaries, evidence notes, and internal review documents.
Support prompt testing and AI evaluation workflows, including documenting what works, what fails, and why.
Use tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI systems to support research, synthesis, review, and day-to-day work.
Communicate structured feedback to the Head of AI, Clinical AI Research Lead, product team, and engineers.
Help improve the quality, safety, and usefulness of AI-powered wellbeing experiences over time.
Support internal research and publication-related work where relevant, under supervision.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You have formal training or early experience in a relevant field such as psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry, public health, behavioral science, mental health research, digital health, meditation research, mindfulness, or wellbeing science.
You may be a graduate student, master’s student, PhD student, clinician-in-training, junior researcher, research assistant, or early-career health professional.
You understand how to think about evidence, including study quality, strength of findings, limitations, and real-world relevance.
You are comfortable checking claims against research and identifying when something is unsupported, exaggerated, unclear, or potentially unsafe.
You can think carefully about indications, contraindications, risk, and the limits of general wellbeing or mental health recommendations.
You are detail-oriented and comfortable doing careful review work across many examples or outputs.
You can use structured rubrics and apply consistent judgment across repeated evaluation tasks.
You write clearly and can explain your reasoning in plain language.
You are comfortable using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or similar systems for research, synthesis, review, and day-to-day work.
You are interested in how AI can be used responsibly in meditation, wellbeing, mental health, and consumer health products.
You are comfortable working under supervision and escalating uncertain or higher-risk issues to senior reviewers.
You are organised, thoughtful, and able to bring structure to ambiguous questions.
You care about building products that help people live healthier, calmer, and more meaningful lives.

Benefits

Comp & perks

We offer competitive salaries and options.
The role is fully remote, but you must be based in Australia.
Extra leave days are available for your well-being and birthday.
A generous L&D budget and wellbeing bonus.
We host a global company retreat every other year.

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Hard Skills & Tools

evidence evaluationstructured rubricsresearch synthesisclinical guidance assessmentAI evaluation workflowsclaim checkingrisk assessmentbehavior change analysismeditation researchmental health research

Soft Skills

detail-orientedclear communicationcritical thinkingorganisational skillsthoughtfulnessstructured feedbackability to work under supervisioncareful reviewreasoning explanationambiguous question structuring