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Remote
$31.00 / hour
Full-time
Experienced
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
- 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 colleague's 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 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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Frequently Asked Questions
This is a fully remote contract role with compensation listed at $31.00 per hour.
The role pays $31.00 per hour as stated in the job description.
Responsibilities include checking tasks for Japanese content, annotating page structure and reading order, linking regions to figures or tables, transcribing text including kanji, hiragana, and katakana, capturing page metadata, and having work reviewed end to end by a second Japanese expert.
Must have native fluency in Japanese with full kanji/hiragana/katakana, professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, or editorial work, exact character-level accuracy, and comfort with unfamiliar layouts like vertical text and multi-column newspapers.
Preferred skills include experience with AI training data annotation, translation-related tasks (MTPE, subtitling, OCR correction), document production in Japanese, and knowledge of Unicode normalization and Japanese input methods.
The process includes uploading a resume, completing an AI interview based on the resume, and submitting the form; the company notes that applications are reviewed daily.
Details about the interview process and platform information are available at https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome.
