Translator

Job description / Role

Project description

Mercor is hiring native language annotators for a short-term project. Participants will work directly with a leading AI lab to improve their AI models' ability to handle and identify data in their native language. No prior experience in data annotation is required.

Looking for talented writers with fluency in Arabic to help train generative artificial intelligence models.

Annotate text, image, and video data according to guidelines and specifications using cultural knowledge as applicable.

Use analytical skills to annotate language-specific data as required (draw a box around the correct phrase, copy handwriting, summarize the idea, etc.).

Assess whether a piece of text produced by an AI model is factually accurate.

Requirements

• Experience as a professional translator
• Professional writing experience (historian, copywriter, journalist, technical writer, editor, etc.)
• Enrollment in or completion of an undergraduate program in a humanities field or a field related to writing or cultural studies
• Enrollment in or completion of a graduate program related to creative writing
• Currently based in UAE

Role details

• The work is fully asynchronous and can be done around your schedule.
• This project requires that you be able to commit a minimum of 15 hours per week.
• The work will last for approximately 3-4 weeks after you begin the project.
• Please note you will need access to a desktop or laptop computer for this project. We cannot accept applicants who use Chromebook computers.

Pay and legal status

• We can meet industry-standard compensation expectations for your current role.
• We will pay you weekly via Stripe Connect based on the number of project work hours that you log.
• You will be classified as an "at-will" contractor to Mercor.

About us

Mercor recruits expert talent to work with top AI labs. We're based in San Francisco, CA, and are backed by investors like Benchmark, General Catalyst, Adam D'Angelo, Chris R., and Jack Dorsey.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.