Special Education Teacher Expert

AfterQuery; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 97,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly pay via Stripe

Fully remote and async work

Job summary

AfterQuery is hiring special education teachers as contractors to author and grade IEP and intervention scenarios used by frontier AI labs to test model judgment. The work is fully remote and async, with no fixed hours, and you set your own schedule.

Pay ranges from $40 to $70 per hour, paid weekly via Stripe. This is independent contractor, ongoing project work, with a minimum of 10 hours per week and the ability to scale up or down week to week.

Qualifications

• Special education certification or license, or an equivalent credential.
• 2+ years of teaching in special education settings.
• Depth in IEP development, accommodations, and differentiated instruction.
• Clear written English for documenting instructional and legal reasoning.
• Able to commit at least 10 hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Author realistic special education scenarios from evaluation through IEP implementation.
• Write reference answers with the legal and instructional reasoning behind each decision.
• Grade model output for compliance and appropriateness for the student.
• Flag advice that reads compliant but fails the student.

Skills

Clear written English

Education

Special education certification/license

Job description

Special education teachers to build the IEP and intervention scenarios frontier AI labs use to test model judgment. AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We're hiring special education teachers as contractors to author and grade the IEP and intervention scenarios those evaluations run on. Contract and pay $40 to $70/hr, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.

What you'll actually do: Author realistic special education scenarios from evaluation through IEP implementation. Write reference answers with the legal and instructional reasoning behind each decision. Grade model output for compliance and appropriateness for the student. Flag advice that reads compliant but fails the student.

Who this is for: Special education certification or license, or an equivalent credential. 2+ years of teaching in special education settings. Depth in IEP development, accommodations, and differentiated instruction. You can write instructional reasoning clearly enough for another teacher to follow it.

Remote and async. Fully remote, fully async. No fixed hours. Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week. No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers. Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.

Responsibilities

• Author realistic special education scenarios from evaluation through IEP implementation
• Write reference answers with the legal and instructional reasoning behind each decision
• Grade model output for compliance and appropriateness for the student
• Flag advice that reads compliant but fails the student

Required Qualifications

• Special education certification or license, or an equivalent credential
• 2+ years of teaching in special education settings
• Depth in IEP development, accommodations, and differentiated instruction
• Clear written English for documenting instructional and legal reasoning
• Able to commit at least 10 hours per week

Preferred Qualifications

• Depth in a disability category such as autism, learning disabilities, or emotional and behavioral needs
• Behavior intervention or crisis prevention training
• Collaborative teaching or inclusion classroom experience

Why apply

• $40 to $70/hr, paid weekly via Stripe
• 100% remote and fully async
• Shape how frontier models reason about special education
• Ongoing project work with hours you set each week

About AfterQuery AfterQuery is an expert data lab. We build the evaluation and training data that frontier AI labs use to measure what their models can and cannot do in real professional work. Our contributors are practicing professionals, not annotators, and the work is credited, reviewed, and paid at professional rates.