Job Overview
Location
Canada
Job Type
Contract
Category
Data & Analytics
Date Posted
May 6, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As a Data Annotation Specialist for Japanese language tasks, you will play a critical role in improving the performance of Cohere’s large language models by labeling, ranking, auditing, and correcting text and multimodal data, directly contributing to the safety, accuracy, and usefulness of AI systems used by developers and enterprises worldwide.
- • Your day-to-day responsibilities include labeling and ranking machine learning data with advanced Japanese proficiency, auditing and correcting inaccuracies in text, image, JSON, TSV/CSV, or Markdown formats, completing reading and text-based assignments with high attention to detail, evaluating preference-based tasks to select Japanese responses that best conform to guidelines, recommending optimizations for data quality and model performance, providing feedback to cross-functional teams on Japanese language matters, and executing all tasks with meticulous, detail-oriented precision.
- • You will join a global team of researchers, engineers, and designers at Cohere, a company dedicated to scaling intelligence to serve humanity through frontier AI models, where diverse perspectives are valued and high-impact work is driven by a shared mission to make AI safely accessible to all.
- • In this role, you will develop deep expertise in AI data annotation, strengthen your analytical and linguistic precision, gain hands-on experience with structured data formats (JSON, CSV, etc.), and contribute meaningfully to the iterative improvement of cutting-edge language models — all while working remotely within Canada on a flexible, part-time independent contractor basis.
🎯 Requirements
- • Native or near-native proficiency in Japanese and excellent command over English
- • Expert reading and writing skills in Japanese, demonstrated via a written test
- • Basic familiarity with JSON, TSV, CSV, or Markdown data manipulation
- • Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy
- • High tolerance for repetitive and monotonous work
- • Ability to follow complex instructions, navigate ambiguity, and work independently
- • Superb sense of urgency and time management
- • Curiosity about technology and a knack for solving problems creatively
- • A reliable laptop (BYOD requirement)
🏖️ Benefits
- • Part-time independent contractor role with flexible scheduling (minimum 16 hours/week)
- • Competitive contract rate of 30 CAD/hour
- • Fully remote work within Canada
- • 12-month contract duration with performance incentives
- • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI model improvement with real-world impact
- • Inclusive and accommodating recruitment process (accommodations available upon request)
Skills & Technologies
About Cohere Inc.
Cohere provides large language models and retrieval-augmented generation APIs for enterprise developers to embed conversational AI, search, summarization, and content generation into applications. Founded in 2021 by former Google Brain researchers, the company offers cloud and on-premise deployment, fine-tuning tools, and multilingual support to help organizations automate workflows, improve customer support, and analyze unstructured data while maintaining data privacy and security controls.
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