Japanese Linguistic QA Specialist

What You'll Do8

• Spot-check Japanese samples and the output of trainers and QAs, flagging errors in grammar, kana and kanji use, tone, and meaning.
• Send targeted written feedback by direct message and escalate repeated or serious problems to project leads.
• Post guideline revisions, workflow changes, and quality expectations to Discord so trainers and QAs work from the same standard.
• Answer contributor questions on keigo, register, translation fidelity, terminology, cultural context, and tricky edge cases.
• Reach out to contributors who have gone quiet, track follow-ups, and report availability gaps.
• Build and maintain Japanese style guides, FAQs, trackers, honeypots, example banks, and onboarding packs.
• Run onboarding and training calls that walk new contributors through rubrics, workflows, and Japanese-specific rules.
• Audit recurring quality gaps and design QA steps that hold up as the contributor pool grows.

Requirements8

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Japanese, linguistics, translation, communications, journalism, English, education, quality assurance, or a closely related field.
• Native or near-native Japanese with strong reading and writing skills.
• Solid English for reading project guidelines, coordinating with the team, and writing clear feedback.
• 3+ years of professional work in Japanese writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, teaching, annotation, or similar language review.
• Deep command of Japanese grammar, kana and kanji usage, punctuation, keigo, tone, register, honorifics, and Japan-specific cultural context.
• Ability to judge content against detailed rubrics and catch mistranslation, literal phrasing, wrong keigo, ambiguous references, hallucinated claims, and inconsistent terminology.
• Comfort with Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, and project management tools.
• Strong organization for keeping style guides, FAQs, trackers, honeypots, and onboarding material current.

Preferred Qualifications3

• Prior lead or support role for a remote team of trainers, annotators, reviewers, editors, or QAs.
• Background in AI training, data annotation, LLM evaluation, or prompt and response review.
• Hands-on experience with rubric-based LLM QA.

Who Should Apply

The role suits a Japanese language expert with three or more years in editing, translation, localization, or content QA who has reviewed other people's work against a rubric. You catch a wrong honorific or a literal translation, and you write English feedback contributors can act on. Experience guiding a remote review team helps.

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