First seen by our source: 20 days ago
Telugu Document Annotation Specialist
@ Mercor
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Mercor is hiring a remote contract Telugu Document Annotation Specialist at $13 per hour to source public Telugu PDFs, annotate page structure and transcribe text. The work requires native Telugu fluency and experience in document annotation or transcription.
Pay:
$13 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Find publicly accessible Telugu PDFs and record their sources
- Annotate page regions with component types and reading order
- Transcribe Telugu text, including handwritten content, and flag illegible regions
- Capture page metadata and flags for tables, formulas and handwriting
- Conduct end-to-end reviews of colleagues' work
Requirements summary:
- Native fluency in Telugu, including full script command
- Experience in document annotation, transcription or related fields
- Character-level accuracy and attention to detail
- Systematic application of taxonomy across pages
- Comfort with multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms
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- 2026-10-17
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- 2026-10-17
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Job details
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Mercor
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We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.
Full company description
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
- Other recorded names
- Mercor
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- Yes
- 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 – Telugu
Type: Contract
Compensation: $13/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Source documents by finding publicly accessible Telugu PDFs with multimodal elements. Record the source of each document.
- Annotate structure by identifying and bounding every meaningful region of the page. Assign each a component type and reading-order index.
- Record relationships by linking each region to its parent component, such as a figure or table.
- Transcribe text faithfully in Telugu script, including handwritten content. Flag any illegible regions.
- Capture page metadata including language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
- Review a colleague's work thoroughly. Experienced annotators take on end-to-end reviews.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Native fluency in Telugu, including full command of the script.
- Experience with document annotation, transcription, or related fields.
- Attention to detail with character-level accuracy.
- Systematic approach to applying taxonomy across pages.
- Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.
Preferred
- Experience with regional-language AI data annotation or bilingual evaluation.
- Skills in transcription, localization, and OCR correction.
- Knowledge of Unicode normalization and Telugu 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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