Freelance Japanese Teacher delivering personalized online lessons for Busuu’s global language - learning platform. Teaching corporate clients through 1:1 coaching, needs analysis, and bespoke learning paths.
About the role
- Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping document structure and transcribing text. Creating human-authored training data for Mercor’s frontier AI models.
Responsibilities
- Open and check assigned PDF pages
- Confirm pages are in Japanese, legible, contain real content and show no personal details
- Identify and bound every meaningful page region
- Assign component types and reading-order indexes
- Link regions to related figures or tables using parent component identifiers
- Transcribe all text faithfully, including Japanese scripts and handwritten content
- Flag illegible source regions
- Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table/formula/handwriting metadata
- Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced annotator
Requirements
- Native fluency in Japanese
- Full command of kanji, hiragana and katakana, including furigana and variant character forms
- Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, editorial work, or comparable document-intensive work
- Character-level accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to apply a taxonomy consistently across hundreds of pages
- Comfort with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers and handwritten forms
- Independent contractor status
- Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time
Benefits
- Fully remote role
- Flexible schedule / work on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
- Opportunity to work on real published Japanese documents
- Work on projects training and enhancing AI systems
- Competitive pay
- Referral payments of up to $140 per successful referral
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
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Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping page structure and transcribing text for Mercor’s AI training datasets. Fully remote independent contract work focused on high - accuracy Japanese documents.
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Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping document structure and faithfully transcribing text. Creating human - authored training data for Mercor’s frontier AI projects.
Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert creating training data for Mercor’s document AI projects. Structuring pages and transcribing Japanese text for frontier AI models.
Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert creating structural annotations and faithful transcriptions. Building human - authored training data for Mercor’s document AI projects.
Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping document structure and transcribing Japanese text. Creating high - quality human - authored training data for Mercor’s document AI projects.
Freelance Japanese teacher delivering personalized 1:1 online lessons for Busuu’s language - learning platform. Teaching corporate clients and coaching learners toward practical language goals.
Freelance Japanese teacher delivering personalized online lessons for corporate clients. Coaching learners through tailored language paths, progress checks, and goal setting.