AI Solutions Consultant, Special Education | 1099 Consultant

About Panorama

Panorama Education is a technology company building the leading platform for student insight and action in K-12. We help modern school systems understand what students need and take effective action. By bringing together academics, attendance, behavior, and engagement data with AI, we give educators the full picture of every student and the intelligence to decide what to do next. As a mission-driven company supporting 15 million students in 2,000 districts nationwide, the work we do has a direct line to student outcomes every day. Join us and help shape what education looks like for the next generation.

About the Role

Panorama Education is seeking an AI Solutions Consultant, Special Education (1099) to bring deep special education expertise to our work supporting educators and special education teams.

In this role, you will combine your knowledge of special education practice, documentation, and state and federal requirements with a curiosity about what AI can make possible for educators. You will help design, test, and refine ways our platform can be used to support complex special education workflows, including Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), evaluations, Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs), Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs), specially designed instruction, and other special education processes.

We believe AI, when used responsibly, can reduce administrative burden, improve consistency and quality, and give special educators more time to focus on students. At the same time, AI should support, not replace, the expertise and professional judgment of educators and other qualified professionals. We are looking for someone who can bring both perspectives to this work.

Please note that this opportunity is for a 1099 contractor opportunity beginning with a 6-month contract term, with the intention of extending the contract after that. Available project work ranges from 5-20 hours a week depending on client needs and internal capacity. 

If you are interested in full-time employment with Panorama, please see currently open opportunities on our Careers page.

Requirements

As an AI Solutions Consultant, Special Education (1099), you will:

• Serve as a special education subject matter expert, bringing strong knowledge of special education practice and state and federal requirements to the design of AI-supported special education workflows.
• Design and refine AI-supported solutions that use our platform features to support special education workflows such as IEP development, special education evaluations, FBAs, BIPs, and related processes.
• Learn how educators currently complete complex workflows, identify pain points and opportunities, and translate those needs into practical AI solutions.
• Work with district and state requirements, templates, protocols, and exemplars to ensure solutions reflect the context in which special educators work.
• Use generative AI to develop and iterate prompts, instructions, tool logic, and outputs.
• Test AI-generated outputs for accuracy, completeness, usefulness, and alignment with high-quality special education practice.
• Identify potential errors, omissions, inappropriate recommendations, or other risks and refine accordingly.
• Apply strong human judgment to determine where AI can meaningfully support educators and where professional expertise and decision-making must remain central.
• Collaborate with Panorama team members to translate special education expertise into scalable tools, resources, and guidance.
• Provide clear feedback and recommendations that help Panorama continuously improve its AI-powered solutions for special educators.

What We're Looking For

You bring deep special education expertise and are excited to apply that expertise in a new way. You don't need to be an AI engineer or software developer, but you should be comfortable experimenting with generative AI, learning how AI tools work, and using your professional judgment to make their outputs better.

Strong candidates will have:

• Significant professional experience in K–12 special education as a practitioner, leader, psychologist, diagnostician, consultant, or related role.
• Strong knowledge of federal special education requirements and processes, as well as an understanding of how state and local requirements shape special education practice, and a demonstrated commitment to actively staying current as laws, regulations, guidance, and requirements evolve.
• Deep familiarity with key special education documents and workflows, including IEPs, special education evaluations, FBAs, BIPs, and related documentation.
• The ability to recognize what high-quality special education documentation and practice look like, and identify when something is inaccurate, incomplete, inappropriate, or potentially noncompliant.
• Experience synthesizing multiple sources of student information, such as assessment results, observations, progress-monitoring data, educator input, family input, and prior documentation.
• Comfort using generative AI tools and an interest in using AI to solve meaningful problems for educators.
• A belief that responsibly designed AI can help special educators work more efficiently and effectively while keeping educators and qualified professionals in control of consequential decisions.
• Strong written communication, critical thinking, attention to detail, and professional judgment.
• The ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and iterate toward high-quality solutions.

Particularly Valuable

We'd be especially excited about candidates who have:

• Experience working across multiple districts or states and navigating differences in special education requirements and practices.
• Experience designing or improving AI prompts, tools, workflows, or other technology-enabled solutions.
• Experience reviewing special education documentation for quality or compliance.
• Experience supporting district-level special education implementation, professional learning, or systems improvement.
• Experience translating complex special education requirements into clear guidance, templates, processes, or tools for educators.

What Success Looks Like

Your work will help Panorama create AI-powered special education solutions that educators can trust and use.

Successful solutions will reduce repetitive administrative work while maintaining a high bar for quality; reflect relevant state, district, and professional requirements; synthesize information into useful, editable starting points; and keep educators and other qualified professionals firmly in control of review, interpretation, and final decisions.

Most importantly, the solutions you help design will give special educators more time and capacity to focus on what matters most: delivering high-quality support to students.

Engagement Details

This is a 1099 consulting engagement with Panorama Education. The consultant will support defined projects and deliverables related to special education expertise and AI solution design, testing, and refinement. Specific projects, hours, timelines, and deliverables will be established based on project needs.

Panorama Education is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive company because we serve students, educators and families from tremendously diverse backgrounds and identities across the country; we’ve seen how our product and impact are strengthened the more we reflect that diversity. In addition, we have found (and we believe the research) that diverse teams are higher-performing, and we embrace the varied perspectives that our team members share with each other. As such, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Benefits

This role is compensated at $90/hour, with most work scoped and paid using established project-based rates. Contract terms typically begin at six months, with the intention to extend based on performance, availability, and ongoing demand.