[Hiring] Odia Transcription Expert @Mercor

Role Description

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. The position is for PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Odia on a contract basis, with compensation of $13/hour and the opportunity to work remotely.

• Source documents: Find a publicly accessible Odia PDF in an assigned document type with multimodal elements. Record the source.
• Annotate structure: Identify and bound every meaningful region of the page. Assign each a component type and a reading-order index.
• Record relationships: Link each region to its parent component, such as a figure or table.
• Transcribe faithfully: Reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Odia script, including handwritten content. Flag any illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata: Document language, type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work: Conduct end-to-end reviews of tasks by a second Odia expert.

Qualifications

• Must-Have:
• Native Odia speaker with full command of the script.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.
• Exact character-level accuracy.
• Systematic application of taxonomy across pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.
• Preferred:
• Experience with regional-language AI data annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation.
• Skills in transcription and localization: MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing.
• Document production skills: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Odia-language material.
• Knowledge of script and encoding: Unicode normalization, Odia input methods, numeral-form, and character-form accuracy.

Company Description

Headquartered in San Francisco, Mercor's investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.