Japanese Content QA Lead

About OpenTrain

OpenTrain AI is the hiring and contracting organization for this role. OpenTrain is the #1 platform for finding and building careers in AI training and data labeling, helping contributors discover projects, build professional profiles, and grow in a fast-moving technology field.

• Contractor, part-time opportunity
• Compensation of $55 per hour
• Expected commitment of 20+ hours per week
• Applicants based in Japan

About AI Training Work

AI training is the human side of building modern artificial intelligence. Contributors review model responses, write feedback, evaluate quality against rubrics, and help AI systems become more accurate, useful, culturally appropriate, and aligned with user instructions.

This work is part of a rapidly growing technology industry and can offer flexible, remote-friendly opportunities for people with strong language, analytical, or specialist skills.

• Evaluate AI-generated responses and model behavior
• Apply detailed guidelines and quality standards
• Provide feedback that helps improve future AI outputs
• Contribute to cutting-edge generative AI development

The Role

OpenTrain AI is recruiting a Japanese Quality Assurance Lead to review AI-generated Japanese content and trainer QA work across Japanese AI training projects. You will assess output against project guidelines, provide precise written feedback, identify recurring quality issues, support onboarding, maintain documentation, and help align contributor performance with Japanese language standards, style guides, and rubrics.

• Review Japanese AI-generated content and trainer QA work
• Evaluate accuracy, fluency, grammar, spelling, tone, and cultural appropriateness
• Check meaning preservation, instruction-following, and formatting
• Support consistent quality across Japanese AI training projects

What You'll Do

You will combine advanced Japanese language judgment with structured quality assurance. The role includes both hands-on review and coordination work, helping trainers and QAs understand changing expectations while keeping review processes scalable.

• Identify recurring quality gaps and escalate critical issues.
• Communicate guideline updates, workflow changes, and quality expectations to trainers and QAs.
• Support onboarding and training calls.
• Maintain FAQs, style guides, trackers, quality notes, examples, and honeypots.
• Help activate inactive contributors.
• Maintain scalable QA processes.
• Provide clear written feedback for trainer and QA coordination.

Requirements

This role requires native or near-native Japanese reading and writing ability, along with strong English communication for feedback and team coordination. You should be comfortable evaluating AI-generated Japanese content against detailed rubrics and recognizing subtle language and localization issues.

• Native or near-native Japanese proficiency with strong reading and writing skills
• Strong grasp of Japanese grammar, kana and kanji usage, punctuation, keigo, tone, register, and honorifics
• Strong understanding of Japan-specific localization nuance
• Experience in Japanese writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, or related language-review workflows
• Clear English communication for feedback and team coordination
• Ability to evaluate AI-generated Japanese content against detailed rubrics
• Comfort with Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, and project management systems

Preferred Experience

Prior experience with AI training, data annotation, LLM evaluation, rubric-based QA, or leading remote review teams is a strong plus. The listed experience level is entry level, but the role benefits from demonstrated Japanese language-review or quality-assurance experience.

• AI training or data annotation
• Large language model evaluation
• Rubric-based quality assurance
• Japanese translation or localization
• Content editing or language review
• Leadership of remote review teams

How to Apply

Create a free OpenTrain account and apply through OpenTrain AI. Your application should reflect your Japanese language proficiency, English communication ability, relevant content or AI training experience, and familiarity with review workflows and collaboration tools.

• Review the project details and requirements
• Showcase relevant Japanese QA, editing, localization, or AI experience
• Apply for consideration as a part-time contractor
• Plan for a commitment of at least 20 hours per week