Remote Telugu QA Lead for AI Training

SME Solutions Inc; Abu Dhabi; Remote; AED 126,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

SME Careers in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a Telugu Quality Assurance Lead for a remote hourly contractor role. You will oversee quality across Telugu AI training projects, review AI-generated Telugu content, and provide precise feedback to ensure adherence to project rubrics.

Responsibilities include monitoring quality, updating trainers on guidelines via Discord, onboarding materials, and documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mathematics.
• Native or near-native Telugu proficiency with strong reading and writing skills.
• Strong grasp of the English language to follow project guidelines and provide clear feedback in English.
• 3+ years of professional experience in Telugu writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education annotation, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of Telugu grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, tone, register, regional variation and cultural context.
• Ability to evaluate Telugu content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as mistranslation, literal phrasing, unnatural tone, hallucinated claims, ambiguity, or inconsistent terminology.
• Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, editors, or QAs is strongly preferred.
• Comfortable working in fast-moving remote environments using Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, and project management systems.
• Highly detail-oriented and organized with the ability to maintain style guides, trackers, onboarding materials, honeypots and other quality documentation.
• Experience with AI training data annotation, large language models prompt-response evaluation or rubric-based LLM QA is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Oversee quality consistency and trainer performance across Telugu AI training projects.
• Review AI-generated Telugu content and trainer QA work against project guidelines.
• Provide precise written feedback and ensure contributors follow quality standards.
• Spot-check Telugu items, identify quality issues, and elevate recurring or critical issues.
• Update trainers and QAs on Discord about new guidelines, project changes, and workflow updates.
• Create and maintain Telugu project documentation including style guides, trackers, FAQs, quality notes, examples, honeypots, and onboarding materials.
• Schedule and run onboarding training calls with trainers and QAs to explain project expectations, workflows, rubrics, and Telugu-specific style requirements.
• Ensure all trainers and QAs apply Telugu language guidelines consistently and understand updates as projects evolve.
• Identify recurring quality gaps, propose workflow improvements, and help build scalable QA processes for Telugu-language projects.

Skills

Telugu proficiency

English proficiency

Attention to detail

Structured communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mathematics

Tools

Discord

Google Sheets

Google Docs

Job description

SME Careers in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a Telugu Quality Assurance Lead for a remote hourly contractor role. You will oversee quality across Telugu AI training projects, review AI-generated Telugu content, and provide precise feedback to ensure adherence to project rubrics.

Responsibilities include monitoring quality, updating trainers on guidelines via Discord, onboarding materials, and documentation.