German Linguistic Expert - AI Project

mercor; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 49,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a German Language and Literature Expert for a remote contract role. You will evaluate the quality and accuracy of LLM-generated German text across translation, summarization, dialogue, and grammar tasks, and edit content to meet high linguistic and literary standards.

You will annotate German texts for grammatical, syntactic, semantic and stylistic features to improve model understanding and collaborate with AI researchers to enhance German-language model performance.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native fluency in German with excellent grammar, syntax and style.
• Professional experience in literary editing, copywriting, criticism, or NLP-related linguistic annotation in German.
• Strong understanding of literary complexity, tone, and regional language variations.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the quality of LLM German output across translation, summarization, dialogue, and grammar tasks.
• Edit or rewrite German content to meet linguistic and literary standards.
• Annotate texts for grammatical, syntactic, semantic, and stylistic features.
• Identify model errors and help improve German-language models with researchers.
• Provide detailed linguistic feedback to guide ongoing model training.

Skills

German fluency

Editing/writing

NLP/linguistic annotation

Job description

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: German Language and Literature Expert (German)

Type: Contract

Compensation: $50/hour

Location: Remote

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the quality and accuracy of LLM-generated German text across various use cases such as translation, summarization, dialogue, and grammar correction.
• Edit, refine, or rewrite German content to ensure it meets linguistic, cultural, and literary standards.
• Annotate German texts for grammatical, syntactic, semantic , and stylistic features to enhance model understanding.
• Identify model errors and linguistic shortcomings. Collaborate with AI researchers to improve LLM performance in German.
• Provide detailed literary and linguistic feedback to guide ongoing model training and evaluation efforts.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native fluency in German , with excellent command of grammar, syntax, and stylistics.
• Professional experience in literary editing, copywriting, criticism, or NLP-related linguistic annotation in German.
• Strong understanding of literary complexity , tone, and genre-specific conventions, as well as regional language variations.
• Impeccable attention to detail and ability to identify subtle translation errors or unnatural phrasing.
• Strong written communication skills and experience working with remote, distributed teams .

Preferred

• Interest in AI, translation technologies, or LLM-driven language research.