Japanese-Speaking Visual Researchers, Photographers, and Annotators (AI)

Location: 100% remote from Japan, the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, or Canada

Company

Boutique consultancy providing IT professional services and engineering talent solutions.

What you will do

• Source authentic photographs of real-world places, products, and media relevant to the target locale.
• Verify image licensing, copyright status, and provenance.
• Conduct multi-step visual research using Google Search, Google Lens, and reverse image search.
• Create cropped, masked, occluded, or degraded image versions while preserving realistic clues.
• Write English prompts, objective grading criteria, solution notes, and evidence records for each evaluation task.
• Manage structured file naming, shared Google Drive folders, submissions, and quality consistency.

Requirements

• Native or highly fluent Japanese and strong working proficiency in English.
• Strong local cultural knowledge, including non-touristy landmarks, universities, municipal buildings, and domestic media.
• Experience with iterative visual and web research from partial image clues.
• Ability to verify copyright-free, public-domain, Creative Commons, or otherwise licensed imagery.
• Basic image-editing skills for cropping, masking, and obscuring visual details.
• Strong attention to detail and comfort with Google Drive and structured digital workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote contract work.
• 40 hours per week for 16 weeks.
• Freelance engagement focused on advanced AI evaluation tasks.

Hiring process

• Application review.
• Photography portfolio review.