Indonesian Language Expert

SME Careers; Indonesia; Remote; IDR 206,640,000 - 482,160,000; Part time

Job summary

SME Careers is seeking an Indonesian Language Specialist to review AI-generated content and create high-quality Indonesian references. You will assess accuracy, fluency, grammar, tone, and cultural appropriateness, providing precise feedback and model answers to improve Indonesian outputs.

You will work remotely as an hourly contractor, leveraging your deep Indonesian grammar knowledge, English proficiency, and 3+ years of language-focused experience to ensure clarity, consistency, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Linguistics, Indonesian/English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or a related field.
• Native or near-native Indonesian reading and writing.
• Strong professional English (C1) to follow guidelines and provide feedback in English.
• 3+ years in writing, editing, localization, translation, content QA, journalism, education, or related language work.
• Deep understanding of Indonesian grammar, spelling (EYD/PUEBI), punctuation, and style with ability to explain corrections.
• Comfort with multiple registers (formal/informal) and Indonesian business writing norms.
• High attention to detail to spot subtle meaning shifts, awkward translations, and cultural mismatches.
• Reliable, self-directed, able to deliver hourly remote contractor work across time zones.
• Experience with AI data training/annotation or rubric-based evaluation is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI training content: prompts and gold-standard Indonesian answers across domains.
• Evaluate and rank AI outputs for fluency, tone, and cultural appropriateness.
• Detect unsafe or misleading content, factual hallucinations, bias, and policy-risk language; validate reliability across use cases.

Skills

Indonesian native/proficiency

English proficiency (C1)

3+ years content QA/editing/linguistic

Localization/translation

Editorial QA/rubric evaluation

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Linguistics/Journalism/Communications

Tools

AI data training

Translation QA rubrics

Job description

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as an Indonesian Language Specialist (SME) to review AI-generated Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) content and/or create high-quality Indonesian 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, slang appropriateness, and logical consistency; fact-check claims when needed; write high-quality rewrites and model answers that demonstrate best practices in Indonesian 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 Indonesian expertise directly helps improve the world’s premier AI models by making their Indonesian language output more natural, reliable, culturally accurate, and clearly written.

Important: There is no immediate project for this role; however, if qualified, you will be among the first experts we reach out to when relevant opportunities arise. This will also provide you with access to future projects available through our expert network.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop AI Training Content: Create prompts and gold-standard Indonesian 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, Indonesian/English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Native or near-native Indonesian 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 Indonesian grammar, spelling conventions (EYD/PUEBI), punctuation, and style—able to explain why something is wrong and how to fix it.
• Comfortable handling multiple registers (formal/informal), Indonesian business writing norms, and slang usage only when appropriate to audience and platform.
• 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.