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Licensed Professional Counselor Expert

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Posted Oct 3, 2026 · ✓ Still open — checked 3 hours ago

Quick facts

Pay
$65–100 / hour
Type
Contract
Location
Remote
Hours
10+ hours / week
Platform
Afterquery — 226 open jobs
Typical pay at Afterquery
$40–150/hour · median $88 (77 jobs on our site)
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Licensed counselors (LPC or LMHC) to build the counseling scenarios frontier AI labs use to test model judgment and safety. AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We're hiring licensed professional counselors as contractors to author and grade the counseling scenarios those evaluations run on. What you'll actually do Author realistic counseling scenarios, including risk and ethical dilemmas Write reference responses with the therapeutic reasoning behind each choice Grade model output for clinical accuracy, ethics, and risk handling Flag responses that sound empathetic but mishandle risk, and say precisely why Who this is for Active, unencumbered LPC or LMHC license 2+ years of counseling practice after licensure Real treatment planning and safety assessment experience You can write clinical reasoning clearly enough for another clinician to follow it Contract and pay $65 to $100/hr , paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start. Fully remote, fully async. No fixed hours. Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week. No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers. Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches. How our hiring process works Apply at /apply/licensed-professional-counselor-expert. About five minutes. Resume plus a few structured questions. Resume review. Every application gets read against a published rubric and gets a decision. Written assessment. You may be asked to take a written assessment for further placement. Onboarding. Sign the contractor agreement, connect Stripe, and get platform access. Project match. You're matched to live work in your specialty, usually within a week of onboarding. About AfterQuery AfterQuery is an expert data lab. We build the evaluation and training data that frontier AI labs use to measure what their models can and can't do in real professional work. Our contributors are practicing professionals, not annotators, and the work is credited, reviewed, and paid at professional rates.

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About Afterquery

AfterQuery is a Y Combinator-backed company that produces expert data for frontier AI labs. It hires professionals and specialists to build hard evaluation problems, write gold-standard answers and review model reasoning.