Fab Safety and Emergency Response Expert (Japanese)

We're looking for Japanese-speaking semiconductor fab safety and emergency response experts to review and create expert content on fab hazards, emergency procedures, and safety documentation.

Required

• 3+ years as an EHS engineer, emergency response team (ERT) member, fab facilities or sub-fab engineer, electrical safety engineer, or occupational health nurse/EMT

• Native Japanese speaker or JLPT N1 (N2 acceptable with Japanese fab experience)

• Can read Japanese technical safety documents: SDS (安全データシート), 作業手順書, and safety signage

• Hands-on work inside an operating semiconductor fab, or fab-floor work for a semiconductor equipment or gas supplier

• Direct knowledge of fab hazards: toxic and pyrophoric gases, HF and wet chemicals, gas detection, cleanroom evacuation

• Last fab-floor experience within the past 8 years

• Not only office, audit, or compliance EHS work; not only construction or general-manufacturing safety without cleanroom or HPM exposure

Preferred

• Responded to a real fab incident (gas alarm, chemical spill, evacuation, earthquake), or held an ERT / 自衛消防隊 lead role

• Experience at a Japan fab or Japanese equipment maker: JASM/TSMC Kumamoto, Kioxia, Sony Semiconductor, Renesas, Rapidus, Micron Hiroshima, Tokyo Electron, SCREEN, Kokusai

• Knows SEMI S2/S8/S22 tool-safety standards, or facilities experience with utilities, abatement, gas cabinets, or tool hook-up

• Japanese safety certifications such as 衛生管理者, 高圧ガス製造保安責任者, 危険物取扱者, 電気主任技術者 (電験), or 保健師

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.