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Sonia (YC W24) · 4 months ago

Clinical Research Scientist

San Francisco, CA, US

Full-time

Onsite

Entry, Mid Level

$100K/yr - $250K/yr

1+ years exp

Sonia is a conversational AI for mental health support, aiming to create a clinically effective AI therapist. The Clinical Research Scientist will analyze Sonia's performance, improve its clinical effectiveness, and support ongoing academic research projects to gather evidence of its efficacy.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Health CareMental HealthWellness

Responsibilities

Analyzing Sonia’s performance by going through anonymized conversations and transcripts

Figuring out what goes wrong and especially why it goes wrong

Finding ways to structurally improve those flaws

Working with the rest of the team on making the appropriate changes

Testing thoroughly before deploying and creating test cases so we can measure the improvements quantitatively

Once deployed to production, go back to step 1 and repeat

Help with ongoing academic research projects and randomized control trials

Support in finding the right partners, designing studies, recruiting clients, analyzing data, and publishing the findings in peer-reviewed journals

Qualification

Clinical experienceAI model experienceResearch publicationData analysisRCT designAnalytical thinkingFlexibility in therapy

Required

Experience seeing patients or otherwise evidence that you truly understand how good therapy works in practice and why

Someone analytical and outcome focused. If you see clients, tracking your outcomes and results is a big plus. It's our main metric and I firmly believe every therapist should be tracking their outcomes

Experience working with AI models, even if just in your free time. You don't need to be an expert yet, but you will have to become one within the first two months of joining us

Ability to logically break down your clinical thinking and being to articulate why you do something. No 'It depends' or 'I just do it intuitively'

Flexibility with regard to therapeutic approach. We started by very closely mirroring textbook CBT therapy, but are now convinced AI therapy will not be a direct copy of human therapy