German Linguistic Expert - AI Project
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Remote
$50 CAD / hour
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Job details
- Pay
- $50 CAD / hour
- Workplace
- Remote
- Posting language
- English
Original job description
About the job
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.
Position: German Language and Literature Expert (German)
Type: Contract
Compensation: $50/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Evaluate the quality and accuracy of LLM-generated German text across various use cases such as translation, summarization, dialogue, and grammar correction.
- Edit, refine, or rewrite German content to ensure it meets linguistic, cultural, and literary standards.
- Annotate German texts for grammatical, syntactic, semantic, and stylistic features to enhance model understanding.
- Identify model errors and linguistic shortcomings. Collaborate with AI researchers to improve LLM performance in German.
- Provide detailed literary and linguistic feedback to guide ongoing model training and evaluation efforts.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- 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, and genre-specific conventions, as well as regional language variations.
- Impeccable attention to detail and ability to identify subtle translation errors or unnatural phrasing.
- Strong written communication skills and experience working with remote, distributed teams.
Preferred
- Interest in AI, translation technologies, or LLM-driven language research.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
Resources & Support
- For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
- For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com
PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
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Responsibilities
The German Language and Literature Expert at Mercor will evaluate the quality of AI-generated German text and edit or rewrite German content to meet linguistic and literary standards. They will annotate German texts and give detailed feedback to help improve model performance.
Requirements
Mercor needs candidates with native or near-native German fluency and professional experience in literary editing, copywriting, criticism or linguistic annotation in German. Strong attention to detail, written communication and remote teamwork are required, and interest in AI or language technology is preferred.
Skills
- German language
- Grammar and syntax
- Stylistics
- Literary editing
- Copywriting
- Linguistic annotation
- NLP annotation
- Translation quality evaluation
- LLM output evaluation
- Proofreading
- Written communication
- Attention to detail
- Remote collaboration
- Literary analysis
- Regional language variation
- Genre conventions
Categories
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Creative & Media
- Education
Keywords
- German
- German linguist
- German language expert
- LLM evaluation
- AI training data
- NLP annotation
- linguistic annotation
- literary editing
- copywriting
- German copyediting
- translation quality
- proofreading
- remote contract
- Mercor
- AI research
- grammar
- stylistics
- localization
- computational linguistics
- text evaluation
Languages
- German
- English