K-12 Education Specialist - Curriculum

Obsidian; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Obsidian seeks senior education professionals to design evaluation tasks for AI in large K-12 district contexts. You will draft reference outputs and rubrics reflecting how senior educators and district leaders reason about curriculum, budgets, and policy cycles.

The role emphasizes instruction, IEP/504 planning, and standards alignment, with hands-on work in tools like PowerSchool and Canvas. Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in K-12 settings and a track record of rubric and curriculum

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design K-12 education scenarios spanning curriculum design and adoption, IEP/504 planning, and district cycles.
• Create education tasks across instructional design, differentiation, assessment, and standards alignment.
• Develop education operations tasks involving tools like PowerSchool, Canvas/Google Classroom, and state platforms.
• Apply pedagogical frameworks and produce reference lesson plans, IEP documentation, and administrator-level communications.
• Author rubrics that distinguish authentic educator judgment from generic recall.

Skills

K-12 education experience

Rubric and curriculum writing

Teacher training content authorship

Budgeting & policy understanding

Tools

PowerSchool

Canvas/Google Classroom

state assessment platforms

MTSS/RTI systems

Job description

Role Overview

• 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Construct K-12 scenarios spanning curriculum design and adoption, multi-stakeholder IEP/504 planning, and complex district budget or 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 district-level 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 pedagogical or textbook recall.

Ideal Qualifications

• 5+ years teaching, administering, or leading instruction at a public or private K-12 school, district office, or state education agency.

• Direct ownership of classroom instruction, IEP/special education caseloads, curriculum programs, or school/district-level initiatives.

• Fluency in K-12 education tooling and frameworks, plus understanding of how school budgets, state standards compliance, and family/community engagement actually work.

• Prior rubric, curriculum-writing, or teacher-training content authorship is a plus.