Speech-Language Pathologist

Opportunity Overview

Handshake is looking for speech-language pathologists to support AI research through flexible, part-time contract work. This is not a traditional job. You’ll draw on your clinical training and hands-on experience in communication and swallowing disorders, including speech sound disorders, language disorders, fluency, voice, and dysphagia, to evaluate AI-generated content and provide feedback that helps AI reason like a practicing speech-language pathologist. The Handshake AI program runs year-round, with project opportunities opening periodically across different areas of expertise.

This is an ongoing, project-based opportunity you can take on alongside your current role.

What You’ll Do

• Use your clinical expertise to create expert-level tasks that today’s top AI models can’t solve, based on real clinical workflows such as assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, therapy activities, and patient and caregiver counseling
• Review and evaluate AI-generated responses for clinical accuracy, appropriateness, and alignment with current speech-language pathology practice and guidelines
• Provide clear, structured written feedback to help improve AI model performance
• Work remotely and complete tasks at your own pace, with no set schedule or minimum hour requirement

Qualifications

• Degree: Completed master’s degree or higher in Speech-Language Pathology, or currently enrolled in a graduate SLP program
• Credentials: Holds or is eligible for the ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP) or a state SLP license
• Clinical depth: Working knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Speech sound, articulation, and motor speech disorders (including apraxia and dysarthria)
• Child language, literacy, and developmental disorders
• Adult neurogenic communication disorders (aphasia, cognitive-communication) and traumatic brain injury
• Swallowing disorders (dysphagia)
• Fluency and voice disorders
• Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)

Additional qualifications (not required, but strengthen your application)

• Experience across multiple clinical settings, such as schools, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, skilled nursing facilities, early intervention, or private practice, or with assessment tools and telepractice platforms
• Bilingual or multilingual clinical experience, specialty certification (e.g., board certification in child language or swallowing), or involvement in clinical research

Required for all applicants

• Must have US work authorization
• Strong written communication and attention to detail
• Ability to explain complex speech, language, and swallowing concepts clearly
• Do not share patient health information or identifiable patient data
• Ability to work independently in a remote, asynchronous environment