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Location
Toronto, ON
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Work location
On site
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Salary$31.00HOUR hourly
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Terms of employment
Part time
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Starts as soon as possible
- vacancies
1 vacancy
- Source
Talent.com
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<p><strong>About the job</strong></p> <p><strong>Mercor</strong> connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include <strong>Benchmark</strong>, <strong>General Catalyst</strong>, <strong>Peter Thiel</strong>, <strong>Adam D'Angelo</strong>, <strong>Larry Summers</strong>, and <strong>Jack Dorsey</strong>.</p> <p><strong>Position:</strong> PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts ? Japanese<br/> <strong>Type:</strong> <strong>Contract</strong><br/> <strong>Compensation:</strong> <strong>$31/hour</strong><br/> <strong>Location:</strong> <strong>Remote</strong></p> <p><strong>Role Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Open and check tasks. Confirm pages are in Japanese, legible, have real content, and show no personal details.</li> <li>Annotate structure. Identify and bound every meaningful region of the page, assigning each a component type and reading-order index.</li> <li>Record relationships. Link each region to its figure or table through a parent component identifier.</li> <li>Transcribe faithfully. Reproduce all text exactly as it appears, including <strong>kanji</strong>, <strong>hiragana</strong>, <strong>katakana</strong>, and handwritten content.</li> <li>Capture page metadata. Include language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.</li> <li>Review a colleague's work. Every task is reviewed end to end by a second Japanese expert.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p> <p><strong>Must-Have</strong></p> <ul> <li>Native fluency in <strong>Japanese</strong> with full command of <strong>kanji</strong>, <strong>hiragana</strong>, and <strong>katakana</strong>.</li> <li>Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, or editorial work.</li> <li>Exact character-level accuracy.</li> <li>Systematic application of taxonomy across pages.</li> <li>Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like vertical text and multi-column newspapers.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience with <strong>AI training data</strong> annotation, labeling, or bilingual evaluation.</li> <li>Skills in transcription and localization, including <strong>MTPE</strong>, subtitling, and <strong>OCR</strong> correction.</li> <li>Document production experience in typesetting, copy-editing, or digitization of Japanese material.</li> <li>Knowledge of script and encoding, including <strong>Unicode</strong> normalization and Japanese input methods.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Application Process (Takes 20?30 mins to complete)</strong></p> <ul> <li>Upload resume</li> <li>AI interview based on your resume</li> <li>Submit form</li> </ul> <p><strong>Resources & Support</strong></p> <ul> <li>For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome</li> <li>For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com</li> </ul> <p><em>PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.</em></p>
