Postdoctoral Clinical Research Scientist

Slingshot AI • New York, NY

3d • $65,000 - $80,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Slingshot AI is seeking a Postdoctoral Clinical Research Scientist to build the evidence base for AI-delivered mental health care. This role involves designing and conducting studies to assess the safety, efficacy, and areas for improvement of their AI mental health tool, Ash. The scientist will be responsible for publishing findings and ensuring the research stays ahead of technological advancements. This is a fixed-term position of one to two years, based in New York City with a hybrid work model, and offers potential for conversion. The company is committed to supporting the individual's pursuit of psychology licensure in New York.

Requirements

• PhD in Clinical Psychology or a related field.
• Strong track record designing and executing clinical research.
• Solid grounding in methodology, language data analysis, psychometrics, and statistical analysis (R, Python, or similar).
• Publication record in peer-reviewed journals.
• Familiarity with evidence-based psychotherapy frameworks and clinical outcome measurement.
• Strong communication skills, able to translate clinical findings for non-clinical audiences without losing nuance.
• Comfortable working fast and iteratively in a rapidly evolving field.
• Genuine conviction about the mission.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with digital health, telehealth, or AI/ML applications in clinical care.

Responsibilities

• Design, run, and analyze clinical studies on AI-based mental health tools: RCTs, observational studies, product-embedded experiments, and HEOR studies assessing cost-effectiveness and healthcare utilization impact.
• Build and validate novel evaluation methods for conversational AI quality and safety, including LLM-as-judge frameworks for scoring clinical fidelity, empathy, and risk at scale.
• Lead manuscript preparation for peer-reviewed journals and represent our research at conferences.
• Collaborate across clinical, product, engineering, legal, and policy to make sure our research is both rigorous and actionable, and that findings reach the people who can act on them.
• Translate what we learn into sharper measurement: what we track, how we define outcomes, and what evidence we need next.

Benefits

• A chance to join a passionate tight-knit team working on something to change the world
• Competitive compensation (top of personal market)
• Travel between our NYC / London offices
• Free lunch and coffee in office
• Generous learning budget
• We cover your personal therapy
• Support for pursuing psychology licensure in New York

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree