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Malayalam Annotation & Transcription Specialist

Mercor

Job Location:

Valletta - Malta

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 3 September 2026 (Yesterday)

Application Deadline: 1 December 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.

Position: PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts Malayalam
Type: Contract
Compensation: $13/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

Source documents: find publicly accessible Malayalam PDFs with multimodal elements and record their sources.
Annotate structure: identify and bound every meaningful region of the page and assign component types and reading-order indices.
Record relationships: link each region to its parent component through an identifier.
Transcribe faithfully: reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Malayalam script flagging illegible regions.
Capture page metadata: document language type source dimensions and flags for tables formulas and handwriting.
Review a colleagues work: experienced annotators review tasks end to end.

Qualifications

Must-Have

Native Malayalam speaker with full command of the script.
Experience in annotation transcription translation localization 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 or bilingual evaluation.
Skills in transcription and localization such as MTPE subtitling or OCR correction.
Document production experience: typesetting copy-editing or proofreading.
Knowledge of script and encoding: Unicode normalization input methods numeral-form and character-form accuracy.

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)