Language & Audio Expert

Mercor; India; Remote; INR 3,735,000 - 5,320,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Language & Audio Expert for remote, project-based work. This standing listing welcomes linguists, translators, and audio professionals to participate in AI training and evaluation tasks.

Projects start on short notice and compensation ranges from $35 per hour, depending on scope, language, and depth. You will join a flexible, independent contractor model with weekly payments via Stripe or Wise, and you may be contacted when a match arises.

Qualifications

• Native or professional fluency in at least one language
• Clear written communication, since most of the work involves explaining your reasoning
• Comfort with ambiguous tasks, and willingness to flag unclear instructions

Responsibilities

• Writing prompts and reference answers in your language, with the register, idiom, and cultural context a model has to get right for the answer to read as native
• Grading model output in your language: whether a translation preserves meaning and tone, whether the grammar is idiomatic rather than merely correct, whether the register suits the speaker and the setting
• Judging voice, music, and sound work on whether it is clean, natural, and usable, and saying precisely what is wrong when it is not

Skills

Native or professional fluency in at

Clear written communication

Comfort with ambiguous tasks

Job description

Language & Audio Expert

Company: Mercor

Compensation: $35

Commitment: Talent network

Location: Remote

Referral Link: https://t.mercor.com/LEgFL

The research teams behind the best‑known AI models come to Mercor for language and audio judgement they can’t generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against. This is a standing listing for linguists, translators, and audio professionals who want AI training and evaluation work, not a specific job opening. It stays open whether or not a matching project is running this week. New projects start on short notice, so instead of posting and pulling a listing each time, we keep one open per field and draw from it when one begins.

What the work looks like

• Writing prompts and reference answers in your language, with the register, idiom, and cultural context a model has to get right for the answer to read as native
• Grading model output in your language: whether a translation preserves meaning and tone, whether the grammar is idiomatic rather than merely correct, whether the register suits the speaker and the setting
• Judging voice, music, and sound work on whether it is clean, natural, and usable, and saying precisely what is wrong when it is not

Listings in this field on Mercor have posted at $35 to $50 an hour, set per project by scope, language, and depth.

What we're looking for

• Native or professional fluency in at least one language, or professional experience in translation, voice, music, or audio production
• Clear written communication, since most of the work involves explaining your reasoning
• Comfort with ambiguous tasks, and willingness to flag unclear instructions

What this covers

• Languages: Spanish, Arabic, English, Hindi, French, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Assamese, Punjabi, Gujarati, Thai, Dutch, and Finnish
• Translation and interpretation
• Voice acting
• Music, audio engineering, and sound design

What to expect

This listing does not accept or reject candidates, so you will not get a decision on it. We reach out when a project matches your background. Depending on what our clients are running, that can be within a week or several months.

Finishing the domain expert interview and joining every network you qualify for both improve your odds of being matched. You only need to sign up once to be eligible across all of them. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

You will be engaged as an independent contractor. This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule. Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance. Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution. Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered. Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.