Japanese Transcription Expert - Fully Remote | Up To $31/Hr

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor, a remote contract partner, is seeking PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Japanese, paid at $31/hour. You will open tasks, verify pages, and ensure accurate transcription in Japanese, including kanji, kana, and handwriting.

Role requires annotating page regions, linking regions to figures, and reproducing all content with exact fidelity. End-to-end review by a second native Japanese expert is standard practice.

Qualifications

• Native fluency in Japanese with full kanji, hiragana, and katakana mastery.
• Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, or editorial work.
• Exact character-level accuracy required.
• Systematic taxonomy application 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

Native Japanese

Attention to detail

Transcription experience

Editorial/translation background

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

Role 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.