Remote AI Analyst & Photographer (Japanese)

Benture; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

Turing, headquartered in San Francisco, is seeking a Japanese-speaking AI Analyst & Photographer to create evaluation materials for frontier AI systems. This is a fully remote contractor engagement lasting up to 16 weeks, requiring at least 20 hours per week.

You will source and modify real-world images, document licenses, and produce prompts and rubrics to test multimodal AI agents. Collaboration over Pacific Time overlap is expected.

Qualifications

• Native or highly fluent in Japanese; strong working proficiency in English.
• Deep familiarity with regionally significant, non-touristy landmarks, universities, municipal buildings, and domestic film and media in Japan.
• Experience in AI evaluation, data annotation, content review, or quality assurance is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Source authentic, high-quality photographs of real-world places, products, and media relevant to the Japanese locale.
• Verify copyright status and document license type and provenance for each image.
• Conduct multi-step research using Google Search, Google Lens, and reverse image search to identify and verify image subjects.
• Create cropped, occluded, masked, or degraded image versions that conceal key identifying details while preserving realistic visual clues.
• Develop clear, time-bound prompts in English without revealing the target identity or answer.
• Prepare concise, objective, one-sentence grading criteria for each evaluation instance.
• Write solution notes documenting the ground-truth identity, research process, supporting evidence, and expected outcome.

Skills

Japanese language

English proficiency

Research skills

Image editing

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Google Drive

Google Search

Google Lens

Reverse image search

Wikimedia Commons

Job description

Turing, headquartered in San Francisco, is seeking a Japanese-speaking AI Analyst & Photographer to create evaluation materials for frontier AI systems. This is a fully remote contractor engagement lasting up to 16 weeks, requiring at least 20 hours per week.

You will source and modify real-world images, document licenses, and produce prompts and rubrics to test multimodal AI agents. Collaboration over Pacific Time overlap is expected.