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German Linguistic Expert AI Project

Mercor


Job Location:

Zürich - Switzerland

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 12 September 2026 (3 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 10 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: 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 2030 mins to complete)

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