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.