Japanese Paleography & NLP Data Annotator (2-Year)

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seeks a specialist with native-level Japanese to help build training data for machine learning on historical genealogical documents. This two-year fixed-term role emphasizes precise paleography and accurate data annotation to support NLP datasets.

Applicants should have a BA/BS in a relevant field and at least two years of related experience, with strong English fluency for business communication.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in a related field or equivalent experience required.
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience required.

Responsibilities

• Build ML training datasets from historical genealogical documents.
• Decipher historical documents with paleography skills.
• Annotate language data to build NLP datasets.
• Map hierarchies of text areas and relationships.
• Precisely map document layouts and curate data quality.
• Meet deadlines and deliver high-quality outputs regularly.

Skills

Japanese fluency

Cursive scripts

Hiragana Katakana Kanji Furigana

Paleography

NLP data labeling

English fluency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS, Linguistics, Family History, or related field

Job description

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seeks a specialist with native-level Japanese to help build training data for machine learning on historical genealogical documents. This two-year fixed-term role emphasizes precise paleography and accurate data annotation to support NLP datasets.

Applicants should have a BA/BS in a relevant field and at least two years of related experience, with strong English fluency for business communication.