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Image Collection Specialist (Russia)

About the Role

Are you detail-oriented, tech-savvy, and interested in helping train the next generation of Artificial Intelligence? RWS is seeking Image Collection Specialists based in Russia to participate in a large-scale data collection project.

In this role, you will collect and submit high-quality, real-world images of everyday items, documents, and environmental signs using our proprietary mobile tool. Your contributions will directly improve OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technologies and multimodal AI models.

Job Type: Freelance
Location: Russia (work from home)
Work Schedule: Part-time - 10+ hours per week. Flexible - work whenever you want.
Start Date: Immediately
Duration: TBC
Rate: 6 USD per hour

What You’ll Do

  • Image Collection: Locate and capture real-world, original photos across 14 predefined everyday and enterprise categories.

  • Category Coverage: Your collection will span diverse categories, including:

    • Commercial/Daily Life: Price tags, small menus, product labels, receipts, and warning signs (on packaging, food, etc.).

    • Environmental: Signs, billboards, and bus stop boards.

    • Business/Technical: Documents (reports, investor materials), forms, memos & notes, notices, graphs (pie charts, bar charts), and workflows/figures.

  • Metadata/Annotation (Potential): Future project phases may require adding basic captions or performing simple OCR transcriptions of the captured text.

What we’re looking for:

  • Must be currently living in Russia.

  • Native-level written and spoken fluency in Russian.

  • Access to a smartphone with a high-quality camera and a stable internet connection.

  • Ability to strictly follow detailed photography and data entry guidelines.

Important Banking Eligibility: Due to current international banking restrictions, all candidates based in sanctioned regions must have a bank account registered in a country outside sanctioned regions to receive international payments.
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RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics.
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  • What country do you currently live in? choose one · optional
  • What is your native language? choose one · optional
  • What other languages do you speak at a fluent Level? choose one · optional
  • Have you worked with RWS as a W2 part time-employee or full-time employee within the current calendar year? Please note that freelance collaborators (e.g., independent contractors under W9) are not considered employees. Additionally, it is not permitted to hold two different types of engagements—such as W2 and W9—concurrently within the same calendar year. choose one
  • What is your highest level of education? choose one · optional
  • Are you 18+ years old? choose one
  • Are you a Freelancer or Private Individual? choose one · optional
  • Are you able to invoice (usually requires a VAT number or registered business)? choose one · optional
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  • Since when have you been in business (yyyy-MM-dd)? If you are not a freelancer, enter N/A
  • What is your primary native language choose one · optional
  • Are you comfortable using your personal smartphone camera to take and upload high-quality real-world images through our mobile tool? choose one · optional
  • [CRITICAL ELIGIBILITY] Due to international compliance and banking restrictions, we are unable to process payments to bank accounts located in Russia or sanctioned regions of Ukraine. To proceed with your application, you must possess an active bank account in a non-sanctioned foreign country where you can receive international EUR or USD wire/bank transfers. Do you have access to an eligible foreign bank account registered in another country? choose one · optional

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