Fab Safety and Emergency Response Expert (Japanese)
We're looking for Japanese-speaking semiconductor fab safety and emergency response experts to review and create expert content on fab hazards, emergency procedures, and safety documentation. Required - 3+ years as an EHS engineer, emergency response team (ERT) member, fab…
- Field
- Languages & translation
- Language
- Japanese
- Where
- Remote
- Commitment
- hourly
- Hours
- up to 10/week
- Asks for
- Native speaker
- Openings
- 19
- Posted
- yesterday
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How this pay compares
At $85/hr, this role pays more than 83% of the 20 open Japanese roles with a listed pay range, above the median of $40.
Mercor roles that closed since late October stayed listed a median of 39 days (136 roles). Mercor posted this one yesterday.
Computed from 2,746 open roles we track across Mercor, micro1, Handshake AI, Alignerr, Appen and OpenTrain AI, refreshed daily. Midpoints of listed ranges; “up to” ceilings are left out of medians.
What you would earn at this rate
Rate
$85/hr
Per week, before tax
$850
Per month, if the work is steady
$3,683
- Tax
- Contract pay arrives with no tax withheld. A US contractor at this rate and these hours would set aside about $931 a month for self-employment tax plus federal income tax at the 12% bracket (25%, before state tax). Outside the US, your own country's rules apply.
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Open Japanese roles on each platform
The same kind of work, priced on every platform we track, with the best-paid open role on each.
| Platform | Open | Median | Best-paid open role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercorthis role | 4 | $50/hr3 priced | Bilingual Japanese Generalist Expert — AI Safety$48-52/hr |
| OpenTrain AI | 8 | $44/hr | Bilingual Medical Doctor (Japanese)$125/hr |
| Alignerr | 6 | $23/hr | Japanese - Voice AI Evaluator$12-40/hr |
The full listing
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We're looking for Japanese-speaking semiconductor fab safety and emergency response experts to review and create expert content on fab hazards, emergency procedures, and safety documentation.
Required
- 3+ years as an EHS engineer, emergency response team (ERT) member, fab facilities or sub-fab engineer, electrical safety engineer, or occupational health nurse/EMT
- Native Japanese speaker or JLPT N1 (N2 acceptable with Japanese fab experience)
- Can read Japanese technical safety documents: SDS (安全データシート), 作業手順書, and safety signage
- Hands-on work inside an operating semiconductor fab, or fab-floor work for a semiconductor equipment or gas supplier
- Direct knowledge of fab hazards: toxic and pyrophoric gases, HF and wet chemicals, gas detection, cleanroom evacuation
- Last fab-floor experience within the past 8 years
- Not only office, audit, or compliance EHS work; not only construction or general-manufacturing safety without cleanroom or HPM exposure
Preferred
- Responded to a real fab incident (gas alarm, chemical spill, evacuation, earthquake), or held an ERT / 自衛消防隊 lead role
- Experience at a Japan fab or Japanese equipment maker: JASM/TSMC Kumamoto, Kioxia, Sony Semiconductor, Renesas, Rapidus, Micron Hiroshima, Tokyo Electron, SCREEN, Kokusai
- Knows SEMI S2/S8/S22 tool-safety standards, or facilities experience with utilities, abatement, gas cabinets, or tool hook-up
- Japanese safety certifications such as 衛生管理者, 高圧ガス製造保安責任者, 危険物取扱者, 電気主任技術者 (電験), or 保健師
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Mercor has listed this role at $85/hr since Nov 10, 2026 with no change.
Across Mercor's languages & translation roles, the median listed pay was $50/hr on Nov 1, 2026 (15 roles) and is $50/hr as of Nov 11, 2026 (40 roles).
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