Bilingual Japanese Education Expert

Mercor is seeking native Japanese speakers who are also education professionals based in Japan. This role combines your teaching and education expertise across a wide variety of different subjects with language mastery, helping train cutting-edge AI models in the education domain.

You will leverage your background in education, alongside your bilingual communication skills, to create accurate, culturally nuanced, and technically precise content that reflects real-world education usage in Japanese.

Role Responsibilities

• Education Content Development: Translate, adapt, and synthesize complex nuances in education workflows and processes in Japan, reflecting curriculum standards and pedagogy across different educational domains.

• Bilingual Communication: Write fluently in both Japanese and English, ensuring precise education terminology and nuanced expression across languages.

• Domain Expertise: Provide cultural insights specific to the Japanese education system, including assessment, classes, norms at school, and more.

• Collaboration: Work closely with reviewers and peers to refine content, validate accuracy, and align outputs with educational standard practices in Japan.

Ideal Candidates Should Have:

• Language Skills: Native-level fluency in Japanese with strong written and spoken English.

• Education: Advanced degree in Teaching, Pedagogy, or a related field.

• Experience: 2–6+ years of professional experience teaching in Japan.

• Analytical Abilities: Excellent writing, analytical, and communication skills. Experience delivering and creating assessments to students is highly desired.

• Nice to Haves

  • Experience with rubric development is a plus.

  • Familiarity with generative AI models or machine learning concepts is a bonus, but not required.

More Details About This Role:

• Expect to contribute at least 20 hours per week.

• Expect a commitment of around 2 months.

• You’ll be working in a structured project environment with clear goals and tools.

Application and Onboarding Process:

• Submit your resume.

• Complete an AI-led interview to assess language ability and professional experience. This should take around 15 minutes.

• If selected, you’ll take a follow-up AI-led interview to assess your professional background.

• You’ll then complete a paid work trial to determine if this type of work is suited for you.

• After that, you’ll receive feedback and be onboarded to the project.

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

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.