Odia (Oriya) Language Expert

SME Careers; Assam; On-site; INR 689,000 - 1,102,000; Full time

Job summary

SME Careers in India is seeking an Odia Language Specialist (SME) to review AI-generated Odia content and create high-quality Odia reference material.

You will evaluate language quality, provide precise feedback in English, and develop prompts, gold-standard answers, and model responses that demonstrate best Odia writing practices.

This remote, hourly contractor role requires native Odia, strong English, and a detail-oriented approach across time zones.

Qualifications

• Must have native or near-native Odia reading/writing ability.
• Strong professional English (C1) to provide feedback in English.
• 3+ years in writing, editing, translation, or related language work.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI training content: prompts and Odia answers across domains.
• Evaluate AI outputs for fluency, tone, cultural appropriateness, and accuracy.
• Detect unsafe or biased content and ensure reliability across use cases.

Skills

Odia proficiency

English proficiency

Content QA

Education

Bachelor's in Linguistics

Job description

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as an Odia (Oriya) Language Specialist (SME) to review AI-generated Odia content and/or create high-quality Odia 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 Odia 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 Odia expertise directly helps improve the world’s premier AI models by making their Odia language output more natural, reliable, culturally accurate, and clearly written.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop AI Training Content: Create prompts and gold-standard Odia 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, Odia/English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Native or near-native Odia 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 Odia grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, and style—able to explain why something is wrong and how to fix it.
• Comfortable handling multiple registers (formal/informal), regional variation within Odisha, and audience adaptation (India vs diaspora).
• 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.