Education Specialist - AI Training & Curriculum Design

Obsidian; New York (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to engage experienced educators across K-12 and higher education teaching, curriculum development, and instructional design. The role focuses on designing realistic educational scenarios, evaluating AI outputs, and providing actionable feedback to improve AI-assisted teaching tasks.

Open to educators with diverse specialties, responsibilities include task design, evaluation, and contributing to structured training data for educational AI systems.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional education experience.
• Familiar with common classroom and instructional tools.
• Strong written communication and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Design realistic educational scenarios and tasks drawn from 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).
• Review AI-generated educational outputs for accuracy, standards alignment, 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.

Skills

Education experience

Strong written communication

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in Education or related field

Teaching license or higher degree preferred

Tools

Google Classroom

Canvas

PowerSchool

Job description

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to engage experienced educators across K-12 and higher education teaching, curriculum development, and instructional design. The role focuses on designing realistic educational scenarios, evaluating AI outputs, and providing actionable feedback to improve AI-assisted teaching tasks.

Open to educators with diverse specialties, responsibilities include task design, evaluation, and contributing to structured training data for educational AI systems.