Remote English Linguistics Expert for LLM QA & Editing

mercor; Ireland; Remote; EUR 52,000 - 71,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an English Language and Literature Expert for a remote, contract role. You will evaluate the quality and accuracy of LLM-generated English text across summarization, dialogue, grammar correction, rewriting, and reasoning tasks.

You will edit, refine, or rewrite content to meet high linguistic, stylistic, and cultural standards, and annotate text to support model training with detailed linguistic feedback.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native English with excellent grammar and stylistics.
• Experience in editing, proofreading, writing, linguistic annotation, or NLP data work.
• Strong understanding of linguistic nuances, tone, and regional variations.
• Ability to identify subtle grammatical errors, awkward phrasing, ambiguity, and unnatural language.
• Detail-oriented, analytical, and strong written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently in a distributed remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate quality and accuracy of LLM-generated English text across use cases such as summarization, dialogue, grammar correction, rewriting, and reasoning.
• Edit, refine, or rewrite English content to meet high linguistic, stylistic, and cultural standards.
• Annotate English text for grammatical, syntactic, semantic, and stylistic features to enhance model understanding.
• Identify model errors, inconsistencies, and language gaps, providing feedback to improve LLM performance.
• Provide detailed linguistic feedback and analysis to guide ongoing model training efforts.

Skills

English fluency

Editing experience

Linguistic annotation

Attention to detail

Independent remote work

Job description

Mercor is seeking an English Language and Literature Expert for a remote, contract role. You will evaluate the quality and accuracy of LLM-generated English text across summarization, dialogue, grammar correction, rewriting, and reasoning tasks.

You will edit, refine, or rewrite content to meet high linguistic, stylistic, and cultural standards, and annotate text to support model training with detailed linguistic feedback.