Senior K-12 Education Architect & Rubric Designer

Obsidian; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking senior K-12 education professionals to build evaluation tasks for AI systems operating in large school district and public education contexts. The workflows are calibrated to the instructional complexity, stakeholder diversity, and student-outcome stakes of large public school districts and state education systems.

Contributors design K-12 education scenarios, draft reference outputs, and write rubrics that capture how senior educators and district leaders think.

Qualifications

• 5+ years teaching, administering, or leading instruction in K-12 education.
• Direct ownership of classroom instruction, IEP/special education caseloads, curriculum programs, or district initiatives.
• Fluency in K-12 education tooling and frameworks, plus understanding of budgets, standards compliance, and family/community engagement.
• Prior rubric, curriculum-writing, or teacher-training content authorship is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Construct K-12 scenarios spanning curriculum design and adoption, multi-stakeholder IEP/504 planning, and district budget/policy review cycles.
• Build education tasks across instructional design, classroom differentiation and special education, assessment and standards alignment, student support services, and family/community engagement.
• Develop education operations scenarios involving tools such as PowerSchool, Canvas/Google Classroom, state assessment platforms, and MTSS/RTI systems.
• Apply K-12 pedagogical frameworks (Universal Design for Learning, standards-based grading, data-driven instruction, restorative practices) and produce reference lesson plans, IEP documentation, and administrator-level communications.
• Author rubrics that distinguish authentic K-12 educator judgment from generic pedagogy or textbook recall.

Skills

K-12 education expertise

Rubric development

Curriculum design

IEP/504 planning

Educational engagement

PowerSchool / LMS tooling

Tools

PowerSchool

Canvas/Google Classroom

State assessment platforms

MTSS/RTI systems

Job description

Mercor is seeking senior K-12 education professionals to build evaluation tasks for AI systems operating in large school district and public education contexts. The workflows are calibrated to the instructional complexity, stakeholder diversity, and student-outcome stakes of large public school districts and state education systems.

Contributors design K-12 education scenarios, draft reference outputs, and write rubrics that capture how senior educators and district leaders think.