
Expert network · AI benchmark company hiring physicians on contract
Vals AI
Vals AI builds evaluations and benchmarks for frontier AI systems, including healthcare and mental health (a $40M Series A at a $400M valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz, in its own posting). Its Child & Adolescent Physician / Developmental Expert role is a flexible part-time contract for an MD or DO in child and adolescent psychiatry, developmental-behavioral pediatrics, pediatrics or adolescent medicine, or a PhD or PsyD in developmental or clinical child psychology: design scenarios across developmental stages, write scoring rubrics for safe, age-appropriate AI behavior, rate AI conversations for clinical, developmental and safety risk, and join calibration sessions with its researchers. It states $100 to $150 an hour, remote in the U.S. On its Ashby board (read 6 Nov 2026) this contract is the only posting in its 'Contractors' department; the other 6 are full-time staff jobs, which are not listed here.
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Is Vals AI legit?
A company whose benchmarks work started in Stanford NLP evaluation research, with a team from Stanford, NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, HRT, Jane Street and Snorkel, according to its own posting (read 6 Nov 2026). The role was posted on 23 Oct 2026 and has no worker reviews of its own. It pays $100-$150/hr (platform-stated).
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Hourly, as a flexible part-time contract; no payment schedule is stated.
No Trustpilot profile under vals.ai (read 6 Nov 2026); no worker reviews of this role found.
United States: the role is remote in the U.S. (its address is the United States) and asks for a medical or doctoral degree with current or recent direct work with children or adolescents.
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- Pay here is platform-stated, not measured live from a job feed, so treat it as a benchmark rather than a guaranteed rate.
What Vals AI pays
Platform-stated · as of 2026-11-06Researched rate card, platform-stated, as of 2026-11-06
From Vals's Ashby posting (jobs.ashbyhq.com/vals-ai/66fbe58b-28c2-4980-8a4a-ed7db59f9da9, read 25 Oct, 29 Oct and 6 Nov 2026, unchanged and still open): $100 to $150 an hour, USD, for a flexible part-time contract. The posting sends master's-level clinicians (LPC, LCSW, LMFT) to an 'Adolescent Mental Health Clinical Expert' role, which is not on Vals's board on 6 Nov 2026 (7 postings, this the only contract), so no rate for it is known.
| Role | Kind of work | Researched pay |
|---|---|---|
| Child & Adolescent Physician / Developmental Expert (Contract) | Domain Experts | $100-$150/hr |
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Is Vals AI legit?
A company whose benchmarks work started in Stanford NLP evaluation research, with a team from Stanford, NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, HRT, Jane Street and Snorkel, according to its own posting (read 6 Nov 2026). The role was posted on 23 Oct 2026 and has no worker reviews of its own.
Does Vals AI pay?
Yes. A company whose benchmarks work started in Stanford NLP evaluation research, with a team from Stanford, NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, HRT, Jane Street and Snorkel, according to its own posting (read 6 Nov 2026). The role was posted on 23 Oct 2026 and has no worker reviews of its own. Payouts: Hourly, as a flexible part-time contract; no payment schedule is stated.
How much does Vals AI pay?
$100-$150/hr. From Vals's Ashby posting (jobs.ashbyhq.com/vals-ai/66fbe58b-28c2-4980-8a4a-ed7db59f9da9, read 25 Oct, 29 Oct and 6 Nov 2026, unchanged and still open): $100 to $150 an hour, USD, for a flexible part-time contract. The posting sends master's-level clinicians (LPC, LCSW, LMFT) to an 'Adolescent Mental Health Clinical Expert' role, which is not on Vals's board on 6 Nov 2026 (7 postings, this the only contract), so no rate for it is known.
Is Vals AI worth it?
Vals AI pays $100-$150/hr (platform-stated). It rewards credentialed experts who clear its assessment far more than open generalist work. Worker sentiment: No Trustpilot profile under vals.ai (read 6 Nov 2026); no worker reviews of this role found..
How does Vals AI pay out?
Hourly, as a flexible part-time contract; no payment schedule is stated.
Where can you work for Vals AI?
United States: the role is remote in the U.S. (its address is the United States) and asks for a medical or doctoral degree with current or recent direct work with children or adolescents.
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