Clinical AI Scientist, 9 month FTC (Part-time, 4 days)

Job Description

Location: UK based, remote-first (with monthly travel to London)

Working pattern: 4 days per week, 9 month FTC

Reports to: Clinical AI leadership

At Unmind, we're here to create better mental health.

We believe mental health should be a source of strength, not struggle – for people, teams, and entire organisations.

We combine science, technology, and human care to help companies like Uber, Disney, Major League Baseball, and the NHS improve mental health and drive performance.

Now we're looking for more brilliant people to help us do it.

🚀 Our Values

We're building a company where ambition and empathy go hand in hand.

Outpace the rest – Move fast. Deliver excellence.

Stronger together – We go further, faster, together.

Client first – We win, when our clients win.

🌈 Inclusion & Belonging

We're building a place where everyone feels seen, heard, and supported – and where difference is celebrated.

If you need adjustments during the process, tell us when you apply or email talent@unmind.com.

Learn more about how we hire and our commitment to equity in our Candidate FAQ →

🎯 The Role — Clinical AI Scientist

Nova is Unmind's AI wellbeing coach and the centre of our product offering. Its value to clients depends on it being demonstrably effective, safe, and continually improving. We're hiring a Clinical AI Scientist to join a small, ambitious clinical AI function and drive the day-to-day clinical work behind Nova's in-product measurement, safety, and structured experience programmes.

What you'll do

• Drive the day-to-day clinical delivery of how we measure user outcomes inside Nova at scale, in close partnership with our research and data science functions.

• Help shape the clinical design of Nova's structured wellbeing experiences, including the safety architecture that sits underneath them.

• Run the day-to-day evaluation, rubric, and safety-testing work that helps govern Nova's clinical quality, from gold-standard responses to red-teaming and escalation protocols.

• Contribute to peer-reviewed publications, whitepapers, and the clinical evidence base that supports Nova.

• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Commercial, InfoSec, and external academic partners to embed evidence-based thinking in how Nova is built and governed.

🌟 About You

In the spirit of equity and continuous growth, we invite you to remove education from your CV. Qualifications are not a factor in our decision-making. However, some experience in the following is important for this position:

Essential

• A doctorate in clinical, counselling, or health psychology (DClinPsy, DCounsPsy, DHealthPsy, or a clinical psychology PhD), with current HCPC registration – or an equivalent route into clinical practice, including qualified clinicians without a doctorate.

• Demonstrable experience in clinical risk assessment and management, gained through clinical placements, post-qualification practice, or equivalent settings.

• Demonstrable fluency in evidence-based behaviour change, coaching, and psychological frameworks (e.g. ACT, FACT, third-wave CBT).

• Experience translating these frameworks into structured artefacts that others can put into practice (e.g. AHPs, peer supporters, coaches, product and engineering teams).

• Exceptional written and verbal communication, with the ability to translate clinical thinking for product, engineering, and scientific audiences.

Strongly desirable

• Hands-on experience with LLMs in a clinical or mental health context: prompt design, rubric and evaluation design, and structured clinical testing.

• Psychometric or computational methods experience – instrument validation, item response theory, latent variable modelling, LLM-as-judge evaluation design, or peer-reviewed measurement work.

Nice to have

• Working proficiency in Python and/or R with SQL, and/or exposure to red-teaming or safety-evaluation methods for human-facing AI.

Tip for candidates: If you're unsure whether to apply – do. We know great people don't always tick every box.

💚 Life at Unmind

We believe wellbeing and performance go hand-in-hand – and we build our environment to support both.

A few highlights:

✅ Private medical for you & your family

✅ Equity in Unmind

✅ Generous gender-neutral parental leave

✅ 25 days holiday + birthday + celebration days

✅ Revive & Thrive Days – company-wide Friday off monthly

✅ Flexible working + early Friday summers

✅ Remote-first within the UK, with monthly in-person meet-ups and access to a London co-working space

✅ Annual learning budget + learning leave

✅ Free weekly therapy or coaching sessions

✅ Wellbeing support via WellHub & Bippit

See all benefits on our Careers Page →