Education Expert - Sourcing Funnel (Private)

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

Application Process

- Submit a resume or a short summary of your teaching or education experience

- Complete a short form on your field, specialties, and credentials

- Selected applicants may complete a brief sample task

- Follow-up typically provided within a few days

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.