Remote Child & Online Safety Expert

Child & Online Safety Expert

$50 - $90/hourpay

Required Skills

Child Safety

CSAM-adjacent Policy

Teen Safety

Crisis-care

Mental-health

About micro1

micro1 is the leading AI data lab for training frontier models and evaluating AI agents. Experts contribute their diverse subject matter knowledge across domains such as finance, healthcare, STEM engineering, and more. micro1 transforms that real-world expertise into high-quality training data, evaluations, and feedback loops that improve how AI systems learn, reason, and perform.

Our platform identifies and vets top talent through an AI recruiter, enabling high-quality expert contributions at scale. We aim to enable 1 billion people to do meaningful work by applying their expertise to AI. As our global expert network grows, micro1 is building the human intelligence layer for frontier AI.

Role Title: Child & Online Safety Expert

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

micro1 is engaging Child & Online Safety Experts to contribute to a high-impact customer project focused on online safety and mental-health support for young people. In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input. No prior experience in AI is required — your domain knowledge is what matters. This opportunity centers on developing a robust mental-health safety evaluation framework for vulnerable youth online, leveraging your deep knowledge of crisis-care and digital risk assessment.

Scope of Work

1. Develop comprehensive taxonomies related to self-harm, suicide prevention, eating disorders, and emotional dependency in digital contexts.
2. Establish best-practice standards for digital support and clinical safety regarding youth and adolescent mental health.
3. Create detection frameworks to identify, flag, and evaluate potentially harmful online content and advice related to mental-health crises for minors.
4. Design and refine clinical response rubrics and escalation protocols for at-risk individuals in digital environments.
5. Collaborate with project leads to ensure that all evaluation benchmarks and guidelines are grounded in current research and clinical best practices.
6. Offer insights on CSAM-adjacent policy and online exploitation dynamics, enhancing digital child safety protocols.
7. Deliver clear, actionable written and verbal feedback that shapes the ongoing development of AI safety tools and frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Licensed therapist, psychiatrist, clinician, or mental-health professional with direct crisis-care experience.
2. 5+ years of focused work in adolescent mental health, suicide prevention, eating-disorder intervention, or related fields; 8–20 years welcomed for senior contributors.
3. Demonstrated expertise in clinical risk assessment and intervention in digital or online settings.
4. Advanced degree, specialized certification, or equivalent operational experience in mental-health or child safety domains.
5. Experience evaluating or implementing CSAM-adjacent policies, or working within child online exploitation prevention initiatives.
6. Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex information for diverse audiences.
7. High credibility and a recognized track record of impact in clinical, crisis-response, or safety evaluation communities.