Remote Odia QA Lead for AI Training

SME Careers; Indonesia; Remote; IDR 369,726,000 - 690,156,000; Part time

Job summary

SME Careers is seeking an Odia Quality Assurance Lead for an hourly remote contractor role. You will oversee quality, trainer performance, and compliance across Odia AI training projects, reviewing AI-generated Odia content and providing precise written feedback.

You will assess accuracy, grammar, tone, cultural relevance, and adherence to project rubrics, identify recurring issues, update trainers, support onboarding, and maintain thorough documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Odia, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant field.
• Native or near-native Odia proficiency with strong reading and writing skills.
• Strong grasp of the English language to follow project guidelines and provide feedback in English.
• 3+ years of professional Odia writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of Odia grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, tone, register, and cultural context.
• Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, editors, or QAs is strongly preferred.
• Comfortable working in fast-moving remote environments using tools such as Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, and PM systems.
• Experience with AI training, data annotation, large language models, prompt/response evaluation, or rubric-based LLM QA is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check Odia items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and escalate recurring or critical issues.
• Trainer and QA communication: Update trainers and QAs on Discord about new item guidelines, project changes, workflow updates, and quality expectations.
• Question handling: Respond to trainer/QA questions clearly and promptly, especially around Odia wording, register, translation fidelity, cultural context, and edge cases.
• Trainer/QA activation management: DM contributors who are inactive or not working, encourage activation, track follow-ups, and flag availability issues when needed.
• Documentation: Create and maintain Odia project documentation, including style guides, trackers, FAQs, quality notes, examples, honeypots, and onboarding materials.
• Onboarding and training: Schedule and run onboarding/training calls with trainers and QAs to explain project expectations, workflows, rubrics, quality standards, and Odia-specific style requirements.
• Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply Odia language guidelines consistently and understand updates as projects evolve.
• Process improvement: Identify recurring quality gaps, propose workflow improvements, and help build scalable QA processes for Odia-language projects.

Skills

Quality monitoring

Trainer communication

Question handling

Activation management

Documentation

Onboarding

Quality alignment

Process improvement

Education

Odia/Linguistics degree

Tools

Discord

Google Sheets

Google Docs

Job description

SME Careers is seeking an Odia Quality Assurance Lead for an hourly remote contractor role. You will oversee quality, trainer performance, and compliance across Odia AI training projects, reviewing AI-generated Odia content and providing precise written feedback.

You will assess accuracy, grammar, tone, cultural relevance, and adherence to project rubrics, identify recurring issues, update trainers, support onboarding, and maintain thorough documentation.