Finnish Language Expert

SME Careers; Pohjois-Lapin seutukunta; Remote; EUR 41,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote contract

Hourly pay

Exposure to AI data training

Job summary

SME Careers is seeking a Finnish Language Specialist (SME) for an hourly remote contractor role. You will review AI-generated Finnish content and create high-quality Finnish reference content, evaluating quality and providing precise written feedback.

You will assess outputs for accuracy, fluency, grammar, tone, and cultural appropriateness, identifying errors and suggesting rewrites to demonstrate best practices in Finnish writing. This is a flexible, time-zone agnostic contract.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in a language domain.
• Native or near-native Finnish proficiency (reading and writing).
• Strong professional proficiency in English (C1).
• 3+ years of language-focused writing, editing, localization, translation, or QA.
• Deep understanding of Finnish grammar, style, and punctuation.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI Training Content: create prompts and gold-standard Finnish answers across domains.
• Evaluate and rank AI outputs to improve fluency, tone, and cultural accuracy.
• Detect unsafe or misleading content; validate reliability across use cases.

Skills

Finnish expert

English proficiency

Content QA

Editing/Translation

AI data training

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Linguistics/related field

Equivalent professional experience

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.