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Japanese Transcription Expert - Fully Remote | Up to $31/hr
@ Mercor
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Mercor is hiring a Japanese transcription expert on a remote contract paying $31 per hour. The work is annotating and transcribing Japanese PDF pages for AI research labs, including structure tagging, exact character-level transcription and second-expert review. Native Japanese fluency and professional transcription, translation or editorial experience are required.
Pay:
$31 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Annotate Japanese PDF pages with structure regions and reading order
- Link regions to parent components such as figures and tables
- Transcribe Japanese text exactly, including handwriting
- Capture page metadata and flag tables, formulas and handwriting
- Review a colleague's work as second Japanese expert
Requirements summary:
- Native Japanese fluency including kanji, hiragana and katakana
- Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation or editorial work
- Exact character-level accuracy
- Comfort with vertical text and multi-column layouts
- AI training data annotation experience preferred
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Job details
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | Japanese, English |
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Mercor
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We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.
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Mercor is defining the future of work. We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.
- LinkedIn followers
- 654,507
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 5,250
- Reported office locations
- San Francisco, California 94105, US
- Business categories
- Employment
- Software
- Recruiting
- Data Collection and Labeling
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Machine Learning
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- Mercor
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- Reported total investment
- 483,600,000
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Mercor is defining the future of work. We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software Development |
| Company size | 51-200 employees |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2023 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 1,626 |
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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: PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Japanese
Type: Contract
Compensation: $31/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Evaluate pages provided for annotation, ensuring they are in Japanese, legible, and contain real content without personal details.
- Annotate structure by identifying and bounding regions such as document titles, sections, tables, and figures, assigning each a component type and reading-order index.
- Record relationships by linking regions to their parent components, such as figures or tables.
- Transcribe text exactly as it appears, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, and handwritten content, flagging illegible regions.
- Capture page metadata, including language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
- Review a colleague's work as a second Japanese expert, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Native fluency in Japanese, including full command of kanji, hiragana, and katakana.
- Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, or editorial work.
- Exact character-level accuracy.
- Systematic application of taxonomy across pages.
- Comfort with unfamiliar layouts, such as vertical text and multi-column formats.
Preferred
- Experience with AI training data annotation, labeling, or bilingual evaluation.
- Skills in transcription and localization, including MTPE and OCR correction.
- Expertise in document production, typesetting, and proofreading.
- Knowledge of script and encoding, including Unicode normalization and Japanese input methods.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
Resources & Support
- For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
- For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected]
PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
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