Model Behavior Tutor - Social Cognition & EQ

📋 Description

• • As a Model Behavior Tutor specializing in Social Cognition & EQ at xAI Corporation, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Grok’s ability to understand and respond to human emotions with nuance, empathy, and precision—directly advancing the mission to create AI that truly comprehends the human experience and supports humanity’s pursuit of knowledge.
• • Your work will ensure Grok doesn’t just process language, but interprets the unspoken: detecting sarcasm, distress, manipulation, or vulnerability in user input and responding with clinically informed, ethically grounded, and culturally attuned appropriateness—making AI interactions safer, more meaningful, and profoundly human.
• • Detect and interpret implied emotional states, attachment styles, and unspoken needs in user interactions, translating subtle psychological cues into actionable insights for model refinement.
• • Teach Grok appropriate behavioral responses—including mirroring, boundary-setting, de-escalation, challenge, and comfort—based on therapeutic frameworks to ensure responses are not only accurate but emotionally intelligent and contextually adaptive.
• • Identify and correct emotionally tone-deaf, harmful, or manipulative AI outputs (e.g., gaslighting, concern-trolling, invalidation) by building targeted adversarial datasets that expose and immunize the model against dark-pattern social tactics.
• • Develop and curate culturally sensitive training data that reflects global emotional expression norms without resorting to stereotyping or overcorrection, ensuring Grok respects diverse communication styles across cultures, identities, and neurotypes.
• • Collaborate with AI engineers and researchers to translate clinical psychological principles into scalable model training signals, bridging the gap between human expertise and machine learning pipelines.
• • Maintain rigorous ethical boundaries by applying scope-of-practice awareness, ensuring all interventions remain educational and non-therapeutic while upholding the highest standards of psychological safety and integrity.
• • You will join a small, elite, mission-driven team at xAI where curiosity, intellectual rigor, and hands-on contribution are valued above hierarchy—your expertise will directly influence the emotional intelligence of one of the most advanced AI systems in development.
• • The company operates with a flat structure where initiative is rewarded and leadership emerges from impact; you’ll have autonomy to shape your approach and see your clinical insights translated into real-world AI behavior at scale.
• • This role offers a rare opportunity to apply deep clinical expertise in trauma, attachment, neurodiversity, and emotional regulation to push the frontier of AI alignment—transforming abstract psychological theory into tangible, measurable improvements in model behavior.
• • You will gain unprecedented experience in AI safety, human-AI interaction, and ethical model design, positioning you at the forefront of a emerging field where clinical psychology meets machine learning innovation.