Academic Editor (Physical Sciences)

Crimson Interactive; Mumbai; Hybrid; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Crimson Interactive is seeking Academic Editors to work on scholarly manuscripts across multiple disciplines from its Mumbai center. You will apply subject-matter expertise and advanced language skills to enhance clarity, accuracy, and presentation of research papers for international publication.

Role involves editing for grammar, technical accuracy, and formatting while ensuring consistency with journals’ requirements. Join a multicultural team collaborating with researchers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Strong subject-matter expertise across disciplines
• Excellent language and editing skills
• Ability to understand scholarly manuscripts and provide publication-ready edits

Responsibilities

• Edit manuscripts for grammar, punctuation, spelling, syntax, and overall language quality.
• Review content for subject-specific accuracy, logical flow, consistency, and appropriate terminology.
• Identify and address ambiguities, inconsistencies, and potential technical inaccuracies within the manuscript.
• Format documents per style guides, publisher requirements, and journal specs.
• Ensure consistency in citations, references, tables, figures, equations, abbreviations, and structure.
• Perform detailed quality checks to deliver publication-ready manuscripts.
• Provide author-facing comments for clarification or revision.

Skills

Editing

Language proficiency

Attention to detail

Job description

Job Description

Role : Academic Research Editor

Job location : Goregaon (West), Mumbai

Department : Editing

Shift time : Rotational shift from 7 am to 11 pm (Any 9 hours within this window)

Working days : 5-day week with rotational week offs

We believe you Can be a descent editor

If you can spot the mistakes, write back to us!

Do you have a knack for spotting errors, a passion for the English language, and the subject expertise to understand what a research paper is really trying to say? If so, you might be the Academic Editor we are looking for!

Whether you are a recent graduate or an experienced professional, this role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the global research community. As an Academic Editor, you will work on scholarly manuscripts across diverse disciplines, applying both your subject-matter expertise and editorial skills to enhance the clarity, accuracy, and presentation of academic research.

You will gain valuable exposure to the scholarly publishing ecosystem, collaborate with researchers from around the world, and work in a multicultural environment with authors from countries including Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Brazil, and Turkey. The manuscripts you handle may span a wide range of disciplines, including Medicine, Biosciences, Humanities, Economics, Business, Physical Sciences and Engineering.

If you are passionate about academic communication, detail-oriented, and eager to make a meaningful impact on the dissemination of research, we would love to hear from you.

Who are we?

Crimson Interactive is a leading language solutions provider in the field of diversified language solutions with headquarters in Goregaon (W), Mumbai. We offer a range of English language solutions, including editing, publication support, translation, and transcription, to customers globally. With over 40,000 satisfied customers, we strive to make the how-when-what-where-why of world-changing ideas accessible to everyone. We are proud to be one of the top three editing companies in Japan.

Crimson has also been recognized as one of the 100 most promising companies in the world by Red Herring Awards.

Crimson is, in short, defined by - Quality People! Quality Work!

We are seeking Academic Editors with strong subject-matter expertise and excellent language skills to work on scholarly manuscripts across a range of disciplines. The role involves reviewing academic documents for language, technical accuracy, consistency, and formatting to ensure they meet international publication standards.

As an Academic Editor, you will serve as an author's second set of eyes, combining subject knowledge with editorial expertise to enhance the clarity, accuracy, and presentation of research documents.

Key Responsibilities

• Edit manuscripts for grammar, punctuation, spelling, syntax, and overall language quality.
• Review content for subject-specific accuracy, logical flow, consistency, and appropriate use of terminology.
• Identify and address ambiguities, inconsistencies, and potential technical inaccuracies within the manuscript.
• Format documents in accordance with relevant style guides, publisher requirements, and journal specifications.
• Ensure consistency in citations, references, tables, figures, equations, abbreviations, and document structure.
• Perform detailed quality checks to deliver publication-ready manuscripts.
• Provide clear and constructive author-facing comments wherever clarification or revision is required.

We have openings across multiple disciplines, including:

Biosciences

(Biology, Microbiology, Zoology, Botany, Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Pharmacy, Food Technology, Genetics)

Engineering and Physical Sciences

(Chemical, Mechanical, Electronic, Civil, and Telecommunication Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Astronomy)

Economics and Business

(Business Administration, Economics, Commerce, Finance)

Arts and Humanities

(Literature, Psychology, History, Political Science, Sociology, Law, Media Communication)

Medicine

(Surgery, Dentistry, Medicine, Physiotherapy, Epidemiology, Medical Technology, Radiology)

What Makes This Role Unique

Unlike conventional language-editing roles, this position requires editors to apply their academic and subject-matter expertise while editing. Editors are expected to understand the content, identify technical inconsistencies, ensure discipline-specific accuracy, and format manuscripts according to publication requirements.

Our objective is to deliver publication-ready documents that are accurate, clear, professionally formatted, and aligned with international publishing standards, thereby helping authors communicate their research effectively to publishers, reviewers, and readers.

We are hiring!