Japanese Transcription Expert Fully Remote

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 DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.

Position: PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts Japanese
Type: Contract
Compensation: $31/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Open and check tasks. Confirm pages are in Japanese legible have real content and show no personal details.
• Annotate structure. Identify and bound every meaningful region of the page assigning each a component type and reading-order index.
• Record relationships. Link each region to its figure or table through a parent component identifier.
• Transcribe faithfully. Reproduce all text exactly as it appears including kanji hiragana katakana and handwritten content.
• Capture page metadata. Include language document type source page dimensions and flags for tables formulas and handwriting.
• Review a colleagues work. Every task is reviewed end to end by a second Japanese expert.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native fluency in Japanese with 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 like vertical text and multi-column newspapers.

Preferred

• Experience with AI training data annotation labeling or bilingual evaluation.
• Skills in transcription and localization including MTPE subtitling and OCR correction.
• Document production experience in typesetting copy-editing or digitization of Japanese material.
• Knowledge of script and encoding including Unicode normalization and Japanese input methods.

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

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

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