Sonic Audit Specialist – Japanese

🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $37 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 9%

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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

• Audit AI training data in Japanese across Amazon Sonic audit collections • Listen to human or agent speech and verify whether transcriptions accurately capture what was said • Apply error codes, assign pass or fail verdicts, and write a short rationale • Verify word-level segment start and end timestamps against the audio • Confirm reference transcriptions match the spoken form • Correct erroneous boundaries, split or merge segments, add missing segments, and remove segments containing no word • Tag every applicable error code and explain why a task passed or failed • Call out critical errors first in failure rationales • Complete a short calibration phase before production work

🎯 Requirements

• Native or near-native command of Japanese as spoken in Japan • Either born and raised in a region where Japanese and this variety is dominant, or fully fluent with five or more years of residence in such a region • Strong English reading and writing • Ability to read a detailed rulebook and write clear feedback in English • Disciplined application of written rubrics across hundreds of judgments • Careful listening skills, including distinguishing similar sounds and identifying word boundaries in continuous speech • Prior transcription, subtitling, localization, linguistic annotation, or QA experience is a strong signal • Helpful but not required: prior AI data annotation or model evaluation work • Helpful but not required: phonetics or linguistics background • Helpful but not required: experience with audio editing or waveform tools • Must be able to work as an independent contractor • H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role • Flexible schedule / can be completed on your own schedule • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise • Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance • Competitive pay • Collaboration with leading researchers • Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems • Up to $150 for each successful referral through the unique referral link