Education Specialist - Curriculum Design

Mercor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is collaborating with a leading AI lab to engage experienced educators across K-12 and higher education teaching, curriculum development, assessment, and educational technology. Contributors translate daily teaching workflows into structured, high-quality training data for AI systems.

Role spans task design, evaluation, and structured feedback on AI outputs, with opportunities to advance into reviewer, lead, and domain-expert roles. Open to diverse education specialties.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in education (K-12 or higher-ed teaching, curriculum/instructional design, assessment, or related field)
• State teaching license/certification or an advanced degree preferred, but not required
• Bachelor's degree in Education or a subject-matter field
• Familiar with classroom tools (e.g., Google Classroom, Canvas, PowerSchool, assessment/curriculum platforms)
• Strong written communication and attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Design realistic educational scenarios and tasks drawn from day-to-day work (lesson planning, assessment, item writing, grading to rubric)
• Review AI-generated outputs for accuracy and standards alignment and pedagogical soundness
• Create structured examples reflecting how educators reason through problems
• Provide clear written feedback to improve AI performance in teaching tasks
• Collaborate asynchronously with the research team

Education

Bachelor's degree in Education or related field

State teaching license/certification or advanced degree preferred

Advanced degree (MEd/EdD/PhD) or subject master's

Job description

Role Overview

Mercor is collaborating with a leading AI lab to engage experienced educators across all areas of practice — including K-12 and higher-education teaching, curriculum development and instructional design, assessment and psychometrics, special education, tutoring and academic support, and educational technology. Contributors help build AI systems that reason about real educational work by translating everyday teaching, assessment, and instructional-design workflows, judgments, and decision-making into structured, high-quality training data.

Key Responsibilities

• Design realistic educational scenarios and tasks drawn from your day-to-day work (e.g., lesson planning, assessment and item writing, grading against a rubric, differentiation and intervention, curriculum and unit design, IEPs and accommodations, student feedback)
• Review and compare AI-generated educational outputs for accuracy, standards alignment (e.g., Common Core, NGSS, state or discipline standards), grade-level appropriateness, and sound pedagogical judgment
• Create structured examples that reflect how educators actually reason through problems
• Provide clear written feedback that improves how AI performs teaching and instructional tasks
• Collaborate asynchronously with the research team

Ideal Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in education (K-12 or higher-ed teaching, curriculum/instructional design, assessment, special education, tutoring, or a related field)
• A state teaching license/certification, National Board Certification, or an advanced degree (MEd/EdD/PhD or a subject master's) preferred, but not required
• Bachelor's degree in Education or a subject-matter field
• Comfortable with common classroom and instructional tools (e.g., Google Classroom, Canvas, an SIS such as PowerSchool, assessment and curriculum platforms)
• Strong written communication and attention to detail

More About the Opportunity

• Open to all education specialties and grade bands — contribute where your expertise is strongest
• Work spans task design, evaluation, and structured feedback on AI educational outputs
• Strong contributors advance into reviewer, lead, and domain-expert roles