Tamil Expert with Mathematical Background

SME Careers; Chennai; Remote; INR 344,000 - 827,000; Part time

Job summary

SME Careers is seeking a Tamil Language Specialist for an hourly, remote contractor role to review AI-generated Tamil content and create reference material. You will assess accuracy, fluency, grammar, tone, and cultural appropriateness, provide precise feedback in English, and write high-quality rewrites and model answers to illustrate best practices.

Bachelor's in Mathematics, native Tamil, strong English (C1), and 3+ years in language-focused work are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics required.
• Native or near-native Tamil proficiency (reading and writing).
• Strong professional proficiency in English (C1) to provide feedback in English.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI training content: create prompts and gold-standard Tamil answers across domains.
• Evaluate and rank AI outputs to improve fluency, tone, and cultural appropriateness.
• Detect unsafe or misleading content and provide quality feedback and rewrites.

Skills

Tamil language proficiency

English proficiency

Attention to detail

Self-directed work

Remote collaboration

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mathematics

Job description

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Tamil Language Specialist (SME) to review AI-generated Tamil content and/or create high-quality Tamil 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 Tamil writing; and rate and compare multiple AI responses based on correctness and overall quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop AI Training Content: Create prompts and gold-standard Tamil 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 Mathematics
• Native or near-native Tamil 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 Tamil grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, and style-able to explain why something is wrong and how to fix it.
• Comfortable handling multiple registers (formal/informal), Tamil used in India vs Sri Lanka vs diaspora contexts, and audience adaptation as required.
• 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.