Special Education Teacher Expert

AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We're hiring special education teachers as contractors to author and grade the IEP and intervention scenarios those evaluations run on.

What you'll actually do

• Author realistic special education scenarios from evaluation through IEP implementation
• Write reference answers with the legal and instructional reasoning behind each decision
• Grade model output for compliance and appropriateness for the student
• Flag advice that reads compliant but fails the student

Who this is for

• Special education certification or license, or an equivalent credential
• 2+ years of teaching in special education settings
• Depth in IEP development, accommodations, and differentiated instruction
• You can write instructional reasoning clearly enough for another teacher to follow it

Contract and pay

• $40 to $70/hr, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.
• Fully remote, fully async. No fixed hours.
• Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week.
• No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.
• Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.

How our hiring process works

1. Apply at /apply/special-education-teacher-expert. About five minutes. Resume plus a few structured questions.
2. Resume review. Every application gets read against a published rubric and gets a decision.
3. Written assessment. You may be asked to take a written assessment for further placement.
4. Onboarding. Sign the contractor agreement, connect Stripe, and get platform access.
5. Project match. You're matched to live work in your specialty, usually within a week of onboarding.

About AfterQuery

AfterQuery is an expert data lab. We build the evaluation and training data that frontier AI labs use to measure what their models can and can't do in real professional work. Our contributors are practicing professionals, not annotators, and the work is credited, reviewed, and paid at professional rates.

Responsibilities

• Author realistic special education scenarios from evaluation through IEP implementation
• Write reference answers with the legal and instructional reasoning behind each decision
• Grade model output for compliance and appropriateness for the student
• Flag advice that reads compliant but fails the student

Requirements

• Special education certification or license, or an equivalent credential
• 2+ years of teaching in special education settings
• Depth in IEP development, accommodations, and differentiated instruction
• Clear written English for documenting instructional and legal reasoning
• Able to commit at least 10 hours per week

Preferred Qualifications

• Depth in a disability category such as autism, learning disabilities, or emotional and behavioral needs
• Behavior intervention or crisis prevention training
• Collaborative teaching or inclusion classroom experience

Why Apply

• $40 to $70/hr, paid weekly via Stripe
• 100% remote and fully async
• Shape how frontier models reason about special education
• Ongoing project work with hours you set each week