German Language and Literature Expert

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $50 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 1%

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Mercor

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

Mercor is a company for which no descriptive text was provided in the input. Additional information (products, services, target customers, or industry specifics) is needed to create an accurate summary and select appropriate industries.

📋 Description

• Evaluate the quality and accuracy of LLM-generated German text across translation, summarization, dialogue, and grammar-correction use cases • Edit, refine, or rewrite German content to meet linguistic, cultural, and literary standards • Annotate German texts for grammatical, syntactic, semantic, and stylistic features • Identify model errors and linguistic shortcomings • Collaborate with AI researchers to improve LLM performance in German • Provide detailed literary and linguistic feedback for model training and evaluation • Work on projects focused on training and enhancing AI systems

🎯 Requirements

• Native or near-native fluency in German, with excellent command of grammar, syntax, and stylistics • Professional experience in literary editing, copywriting, criticism, or NLP-related linguistic annotation in German • Strong understanding of literary complexity, tone, genre-specific conventions, and regional language variations • Interest in AI, translation technologies, or LLM-driven language research (preferred but not required) • Impeccable attention to detail and ability to identify subtle translation errors or unnatural phrasing • Strong written communication skills • Experience working with remote, distributed teams • Must be engaged as an independent contractor • H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

🏖️ Benefits

• Contribute to cutting-edge AI research in partnership with a leading research lab • Work on high-impact projects supporting advanced AI systems • Gain hands-on exposure to state-of-the-art AI research and development • Flexible schedule; fully remote work • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered • Potential project extensions • Referral bonuses of up to $250 per successful referral, with no limit on referrals (restrictions may apply)