Japanese Document Annotation Specialist

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: • For any help or support, reach out to: PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity. Originally posted on Himalayas