Education Technology Expert - AI Trainer

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Education Technology Expert

Type: Contract

Compensation: $45–$65/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily. Include product specs, learning-design docs, assessment rubrics, engagement reports, integration plans, PD materials, and email threads. Represent platforms like Google Classroom , PowerSchool , and Google Forms .
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows. Require navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents meaningfully.
• Collaborate with other education-technology experts to design the environment, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
• Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for ed-tech agent benchmarks.
• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 3+ years of full-time experience at a Fortune 500 ed-tech company, R1 university, or major K-12 district / state-level education agency .
• Background in LMS administration, educational product management, learning engineering, instructional design, learning analytics, assessment design, or adaptive-learning platforms.
• Day-to-day use of Google Classroom , PowerSchool or Infinite Campus , and Google Forms .
• Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.

Compensation & Legal

• Transition from hourly rate to compensation based on throughput of quality work.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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