Education Specialist - 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

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