Language Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $20/hr Part-time

mercor; United Arab Emirates; Remote; AED 76,000 - 101,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Generalist to support English and Telugu evaluation for AI research labs. This remote contract role involves fact-checking, assessing response quality, and ensuring alignment with guidelines, with independent, deadline-driven work.

Candidates must be native Telugu speakers, hold a bachelor's degree, have strong English writing skills, and show experience with large language models. This position offers flexible remote work and the chance to influence high-profile AI projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• Native Telugu speaker.
• Significant experience using large language models.
• Excellent writing skills in English.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Background or experience in domains requiring structured analytical thinking.

Responsibilities

• Conduct fact-checking using trusted public sources and external tools.
• Generate high-quality evaluation data by identifying response strengths, areas for improvement, and factual inaccuracies.
• Assess reasoning quality, clarity, tone, and completeness of responses.
• Ensure model responses align with expected conversational behavior and system guidelines.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Skills

Telugu native speaker

Excellent English writing

Attention to detail

Analytical thinking

Experience with large language models

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey.

Job Details

• Position: Generalist - English & Telugu
• Type: Contract
• Compensation: $15–$20/hour
• Location: Remote

Responsibilities

• Conduct fact-checking using trusted public sources and external tools .
• Generate high-quality human evaluation data by identifying response strengths, areas for improvement, and factual inaccuracies.
• Assess reasoning quality, clarity, tone, and completeness of responses.
• Ensure model responses align with expected conversational behavior and system guidelines.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance .

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree .
• Native speaker in Telugu .
• Significant experience using large language models .
• Excellent writing skills in English .
• Strong attention to detail .
• Background or experience in domains requiring structured analytical thinking .

Preferred

• Prior experience with RLHF, model evaluation, or data annotation work .
• Experience writing or editing high-quality written content .
• Experience comparing multiple outputs and making fine-grained qualitative judgments .