Finnish Language Expert

SME Careers; Etelä-Savo; Remote; EUR 34,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

SME Careers seeks a Finnish Language Specialist (SME) for hourly remote contracting work to review AI-generated Finnish content and craft high-quality Finnish reference content. You will evaluate language quality, provide precise feedback, and write strong rewrites to guide model improvements.

Responsibilities include creating prompts, ranking AI outputs for fluency and tone, and identifying unsafe or misleading content.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Linguistics, Finnish/English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or a related field.
• Native or near-native Finnish reading and writing required.
• Strong professional proficiency in English (C1).
• 3+ years of professional experience in writing, editing, localization, translation, content QA, journalism, education, or related language-focused work.
• Deep understanding of Finnish grammar, style (case system, word order, compounds, punctuation, and register).
• Experience with AI data training, translation QA, or rubric-based evaluation preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop prompts and gold-standard Finnish answers across multiple domains (general knowledge, customer support, education, conversational writing).
• Evaluate and rank AI outputs to improve fluency, correctness, tone match, and cultural appropriateness.
• Detect unsafe or misleading content, factual hallucinations, bias, and policy-risk language; validate reliability across use cases.

Skills

Finnish proficiency

English proficiency

Attention to detail

Self-directed work

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Finnish Language Specialist (SME) to review AI-generated Finnish content and/or create high-quality Finnish reference content, evaluating language quality and step-by-step reasoning while providing precise written feedback. You will assess outputs for accuracy, fluency, grammar, spelling, tone, cultural appropriateness, and adherence to the prompt; identify errors in meaning, mistranslation, register (formal vs informal), ambiguity, and logical consistency; fact-check claims when needed; write high-quality rewrites and model answers that demonstrate best practices in Finnish writing; and rate and compare multiple AI responses based on correctness and overall quality. This role is with SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs. Your Finnish expertise directly helps improve the world’s premier AI models by making their Finnish language output more natural, reliable, culturally accurate, and clearly written.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop AI Training Content: Create prompts and gold-standard Finnish answers across multiple domains (general knowledge, customer support, education, conversational writing).
• Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI outputs to improve fluency, correctness, tone match, and cultural appropriateness.
• Ensure Model Integrity: Detect unsafe or misleading content, factual hallucinations, bias, and policy-risk language; validate reliability across use cases.

Your Profile

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Linguistics, Finnish/English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Native or near-native Finnish proficiency (reading and writing required).
• Strong professional proficiency in English (minimum C1) to follow guidelines and provide detailed feedback in English.
• 3+ years of professional experience in writing, editing, localization, translation, content QA, journalism, education, or related language-focused work.
• Deep understanding of Finnish grammar and style (case system, word order, compounds, punctuation, and register) - able to explain why something is wrong and how to fix it.
• Comfortable handling multiple registers (formal/informal), "selkokieli" vs standard Finnish when required, and audience adaptation (Finland vs global users).
• High attention to detail when spotting subtle meaning shifts, awkward literal translations, hallucinated claims, or culturally mismatched phrasing.
• Reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.
• Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, translation QA, editorial QA, or rubric-based evaluation is strongly preferred.