1. Job Overview

Google is hiring a Clinical Specialist focused on youth mental health in London. The role combines clinical expertise, suicide-prevention experience and digital-health or AI-product evaluation to support health-related product work for children, teenagers and their families.

2. Job Description

The specialist contributes clinical judgment to Google Health product development, working across software design, engineering, product management, regulatory affairs, research, testing and safety. The work focuses on youth mental and behavioral health, evidence-based practice and the safe evaluation of AI-enabled experiences.

3. Key Responsibilities

• Plan and execute projects supporting youth wellbeing and mental-health efforts across Google products.
• Apply methods for evaluating AI model performance in mental-health safety and quality applications with product management, testing and safety teams.
• Identify evidence-based practices for youth mental health and psychological wellbeing and use them to influence product development or refinement.
• Work across company verticals and product areas to advance relevant youth health work.
• Work with sensitive content or situations that may include graphic or upsetting topics.

4. Requirements & Qualifications

• Doctoral degree in a clinical field such as MD, PsyD or PhD, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of clinical experience, including training, after completion of a doctoral degree or equivalent.
• 3 years of experience in suicide prevention through hotlines or specific clinical work.
• 1 year of experience evaluating AI products or in digital-health product development.

5. Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with generative AI, including safety approaches.
• Experience working in complex and ambiguous environments with cross-functional product-development teams.
• Recognition as an emerging leader in youth mental or behavioral health.
• Track record of peer-reviewed publications or similar relevant writing on suicide and youth.
• Outstanding communication and people-management skills.

6. Skills

• Youth mental health
• Suicide prevention
• Clinical product guidance
• AI product evaluation
• Cross-functional communication

7. Tools & Technologies

• Generative AI
• AI model evaluation methods

8. Work Environment & Career Development

The role works across the centralized Google Health team and multiple product areas, collaborating with clinical and non-clinical teams including engineering, product management, regulatory affairs, research, testing and safety.

14. About the Company

Google is a global technology company within Alphabet whose work spans search, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, devices, operating systems and digital services. Its health-related work combines AI, research, product engineering, devices, clinical expertise and digital-health methods to build and evaluate technology for health and wellbeing.

Health-focused roles at Google can sit across clinical-specialist teams, Health Platforms and Devices, occupational health, regulatory policy, foundational AI research and cross-functional product organizations. Explore the Google Medical & Health Careers Hub for the company overview and other current health-focused vacancies.

15. How to Apply

Review the published qualifications and responsibilities, then submit your application through the final Google Careers vacancy page below.

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16. FAQ

Where is this role located?

London, UK

What is the career level?

Mid

How do I apply?

Apply through the individual Google Careers vacancy link in the How to Apply section.