[Hiring] Developmental Psychology @24-MAG

Role Description

We are sharing a specialised consulting opportunity for psychologists and researchers with doctoral-level expertise in child development, developmental psychology, and related behavioural sciences to contribute to advanced AI training and evaluation initiatives.

Selected professionals will:

• Review and annotate developmentally relevant datasets
• Assess AI-generated outputs for psychological accuracy and cultural appropriateness
• Contribute to scenario and guideline development
• Help ensure that AI systems handle child-development topics with appropriate cognitive, linguistic, and psychosocial understanding

The opportunity is particularly suited to professionals with strong academic or research backgrounds; direct clinical experience is not required. No prior AI experience is necessary.

Qualifications

• Doctorate (PhD) in Child Development, Developmental Psychology, or a closely related field
• Strong academic or research expertise in child development
• Deep understanding of developmental psychology across cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioural domains
• Experience conducting research, reviewing evidence, or developing psychologically informed frameworks
• Ability to assess complex scenarios involving children's learning and behaviour
• Strong analytical judgement and attention to developmental nuance
• Excellent written communication skills
• Comfortable documenting detailed findings and recommendations
• Able to work independently in a remote digital environment
• Comfortable collaborating with distributed interdisciplinary teams
• Direct clinical experience is welcome but not required
• Experience with technology-driven, digital, or AI-related projects is highly desirable
• Prior work involving culturally diverse populations or multilingual contexts is advantageous
• No prior AI-training or model-evaluation experience is required

Requirements

• Developmental Psychology Evaluation
• Review datasets related to child development and developmental psychology
• Assess whether content reflects appropriate developmental principles
• Identify psychologically inaccurate or developmentally inappropriate material
• Evaluate outputs across cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioural dimensions
• Apply expert judgement grounded in developmental science
• Dataset Review & Annotation
• Annotate child-development and psychology-related data for AI training
• Evaluate examples for accuracy, relevance, and consistency
• Provide detailed feedback on ambiguous or weakly constructed material
• Identify areas where developmental context is missing or insufficient
• Support creation of high-quality psychology-focused training datasets
• Scenario & Test Case Development
• Contribute expert analysis to realistic scenarios involving children's learning and behaviour
• Develop or refine test cases representing different developmental stages
• Evaluate how age, context, environment, and individual differences affect interpretation
• Help create challenging examples that test psychological reasoning
• Ensure scenarios remain grounded in established developmental knowledge
• Cultural, Linguistic & Psychosocial Review
• Assess content for cultural appropriateness across diverse backgrounds
• Evaluate developmental guidance within different linguistic and social contexts
• Review how AI systems address cognitive and psychosocial differences
• Identify assumptions that may not generalise across cultures or communities
• Support development of more inclusive and context-sensitive evaluation standards
• Guideline Development & Research Collaboration
• Create or refine guidelines for developmentally appropriate AI behaviour
• Document findings and recommendations clearly for research teams
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary contributors on model improvements
• Help maintain psychological integrity across AI interactions involving child-development topics
• Contribute domain expertise to evolving research and evaluation methodologies

Benefits

• Independent contractor engagement
• Fully remote
• Compensation: $100–$200/hour
• Work will involve developmental-psychology evaluation, dataset annotation, scenario development, cultural review, and guideline creation
• Academic and research expertise in child development is central to this engagement
• Direct clinical practice experience is not required
• Multilingual expertise may be especially valuable for certain assignments
• Project scope, datasets, languages, evaluation criteria, and psychological scenarios may evolve depending on research needs
• Contributors should be comfortable working independently while participating in remote interdisciplinary collaboration
• Work must be completed without using confidential, proprietary, patient-identifiable, participant-identifiable, or unpublished information belonging to any employer, research institution, healthcare organisation, client, or other third party