Japanese Document Annotation Specialist

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 36,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking PDF annotation and transcription experts fluent in Japanese for a remote contracting position. You will open tasks, ensure pages are Japanese, legible, and free of personal data, and transcribe text with exact character-level accuracy.

You'll annotate structure, bound regions, record relationships to figures/tables, and capture page metadata, all while coordinating with a second Japanese expert for review. Prior experience in editorial or transcription roles is preferred.

Qualifications

• Native fluency in Japanese with full kanji, hiragana, and katakana.
• Experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, or editorial work.
• Exact character-level accuracy.
• Systematic application of taxonomy across pages.
• Comfort with vertical text and multi-column layouts.

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.

Skills

Japanese

Transcription

Editorial accuracy

Taxonomy application

Vertical text layouts

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: PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Japanese

Type: Contract Compensation: $31/hour Location: Remote

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

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