Japanese Transcription Expert - Remote | Upto $33/hr

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 40,000 - 54,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert – Japanese for remote contract work. The role requires exact character-level accuracy across Japanese scripts including kanji, hiragana, and katakana, with professional experience in transcription or editorial work.

You will annotate, transcribe, and record detailed metadata for AI training data. Responsibilities include sourcing documents, identifying structure, linking regions to figures or tables, and ensuring end-to-end review by a

Qualifications

• Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji, hiragana, and katakana.
• Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, or editorial work.
• Exact character-level accuracy, prioritizing precision over speed.
• Systematic approach, applying a taxonomy consistently across documents.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like vertical text and multi-column newspapers.

Responsibilities

• Source documents by finding publicly accessible Japanese PDFs with multimodal elements and record their origins.
• Annotate structure by identifying and bounding every meaningful region, assigning component types and reading-order indices.
• Record relationships by linking regions to their parent components like figures or tables.
• Transcribe faithfully, reproducing all text exactly as it appears, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, and handwritten content.
• Capture page metadata such as language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work, ensuring tasks are reviewed end-to-end by a second Japanese expert.

Skills

Native Japanese

Kana mastery

Transcription experience

Editorial 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

$34/hour

Location

Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Source documents by finding publicly accessible Japanese PDFs with multimodal elements and record their origins.
• Annotate structure by identifying and bounding every meaningful region, assigning component types and reading-order indices.
• Record relationships by linking regions to their parent components like figures or tables.
• Transcribe faithfully, reproducing all text exactly as it appears, including kanji , hiragana , katakana , and handwritten content.
• Capture page metadata such as language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work, ensuring tasks are reviewed end-to-end by a second Japanese expert.

Qualifications Must-Have

• Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji , hiragana , and katakana .
• Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, or editorial work.
• Exact character-level accuracy, prioritizing precision over speed.
• Systematic approach, applying a taxonomy consistently across documents.
• 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 such as typesetting, copy-editing, or proofreading.
• Knowledge of script and encoding, including Unicode normalization and Japanese input methods.