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Japanese Quality Assurance Lead for Remote AI Training

Up to 55/hr
Remote
Posted August 31, 2026
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Overview

As a remote contractor, you oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across Japanese ai training projects. You review AI-generated Japanese content and the work of trainers and QAs, measuring output against project guidelines and providing precise written feedback. Documentation, onboarding materials, and style guides are maintained to ensure accurate kana/kanji usage, tone, and keigo. You coordinate with the team on discord and with google docs/google sheets to keep quality expectations aligned and scalable QA processes in motion.

What You'll Do8

  • 1Conduct spot checks on Japanese outputs, identify quality issues, and deliver targeted feedback via direct messages while escalating patterns that require attention.
  • 2Disseminate guidelines and workflow updates to the remote team on Discord to keep everyone aligned with project changes and quality standards.
  • 3Answer questions about Japanese grammar, keigo, tone, kana/kanji usage, translation fidelity, and cultural context with clear, actionable guidance.
  • 4Proactively reach out to inactive contributors, foster re-engagement, track follow-ups, and flag availability gaps.
  • 5Create and maintain Japanese documentation, including style guides, trackers, FAQs, quality notes, examples, onboarding materials, and rubrics.
  • 6Lead onboarding sessions to explain workflows, rubrics, quality standards, and Japan-specific localization requirements.
  • 7Ensure consistent application of Japanese language guidelines across all trainers and QAs.
  • 8Identify recurring quality gaps and design scalable QA processes to address them.

Requirements10

  • 1Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Japanese, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or related field.
  • 2Native or near-native Japanese with strong reading and writing skills.
  • 3Proficient English to follow project guidelines and communicate with global teams.
  • 43+ years of professional experience in Japanese writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, annotation, or related language workflows.
  • 5Strong grasp of Japanese grammar, kana/kanji usage, punctuation, keigo, tone, register, honorifics, and Japan-specific localization.
  • 6Ability to evaluate Japanese content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as mistranslation, unnatural phrasing, incorrect keigo, or inconsistent terminology.
  • 7Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, editors, or QAs is strongly preferred.
  • 8Comfort with Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, and project management systems.
  • 9Highly detail-oriented and organized; able to maintain style guides, FAQs, trackers, onboarding materials, and documentation.
  • 10Experience with AI training, data annotation, LLM evaluation, prompt/response evaluation, or rubric-based LLM QA is a strong plus.

Who Should Apply

Ideal candidates bring at least 3 years in Japanese language workflows and have led remote QA teams. They excel at applying rubrics to evaluate translation quality, tone, and cultural localization. Strong English skills help document guidance for global teams. Native or near-native Japanese and a track record with AI training QA are essential. This contract suits self-starters who can maintain documentation, train others, and scale QA processes; applicants lacking native Japanese or with limited English proficiency may struggle to follow guidelines and collaborate effectively.

Salary Insight

Pay rate: $55/hr. This hourly rate aligns with mid-senior level remote contractor roles in Japanese localization QA and AI training oversight.

Location

Typeremote
LocationRemote
Eligible countriesJapan
This is a remote position

Required Skills

ai trainingenglishjapanesejapanese quality assurancekeigollm evaluationlocalization qastyle guidestranslation quality reviewrubric-based evaluationai training data qacontent qadiscordgoogle docsgoogle sheetsdocumentationonboarding materialsremote team leadershipprompt/response evaluationquality assuranceteam coordinationquality metrics

Application Tip

Provide a concrete sample of feedback you delivered in Japanese that used a rubric to improve tone and keigo, plus a brief note on how you guided onboarding on Discord and Google Docs.

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