Telugu Language Specialist | Up to $20/hr Remote

Crossing Hurdles; India; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Crossing Hurdles seeks a skilled Telugu content evaluator to ensure linguistic accuracy, tone, and cultural relevance across AI-generated Telugu content. You will rate multiple responses, identify errors, and craft prompts and reference material for training in education, customer support, and other domains.

Requires native Telugu proficiency and strong English, with experience in editing, localization, and QA.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native Telugu proficiency with strong reading and writing ability.
• Professional English at C1 level or above with ability to provide feedback in English.
• Experience in writing, editing, localization, translation, or content QA.
• Deep understanding of Telugu grammar, spelling, punctuation, style, and idioms.
• Ability to explain linguistic errors, tone mismatches, and cultural concerns clearly.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated Telugu content for linguistic accuracy, fluency, grammar, and tone.
• Review and rank AI responses by correctness, naturalness, and cultural relevance.
• Identify meaning shifts, mistranslations, and culturally mismatched phrasing.
• Create prompts, gold-standard answers, rewrites, and reference content for training.
• Assess use of formal vs informal language across Indian Telugu dialects.
• Provide detailed feedback in English explaining issues and improvements.
• Review AI reasoning for logical consistency and task alignment.

Skills

Telugu language proficiency

English proficiency

Editing and proofreading

Localization QA

Content evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Linguistics or Telugu/English literature

Tools

ChatGPT

Gemini

Claude

Perplexity

Job description

Interview: Required, conducted in English

• Evaluate AI-generated Telugu content for linguistic accuracy, fluency, grammar, spelling, punctuation, tone, cultural appropriateness, and prompt adherence
• Review and rank multiple AI-generated Telugu responses based on correctness, naturalness, clarity, tone match, cultural relevance, and overall quality
• Identify errors involving meaning shifts, mistranslations, awkward literal translations, inappropriate register, ambiguity, unsupported claims, logical inconsistencies, and culturally mismatched phrasing
• Create high-quality Telugu prompts, gold-standard answers, rewrites, and reference content for AI training across general knowledge, education, customer support, conversational writing, and other relevant domains
• Assess AI-generated content for correct use of formal and informal language, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana regional usage, and adaptation for audiences in India and Telugu diaspora communities
• Fact-check claims when needed and evaluate whether AI responses are reliable, safe, and aligned with the requested task
• Provide detailed written feedback in English explaining identified language issues, why they matter, and how outputs can be improved
• Review grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, syntax, terminology, idiomatic usage, style, and readability in AI-generated Telugu content
• Evaluate step-by-step AI reasoning for logical consistency, completeness, relevance, and alignment with the requested prompt
• Detect unsafe, misleading, biased, hallucinated, or policy-risk language in AI-generated outputs
• Compare alternative AI responses and document strengths, weaknesses, quality gaps, and recommended improvements
• Create and validate evaluation tasks that test AI performance across different writing styles, registers, cultural contexts, and use cases
• Support model improvement through annotation workflows, response ranking, quality assurance reviews, and structured feedback documentation
• Help ensure AI-generated Telugu content is natural, reliable, culturally accurate, clearly written, and appropriate for its intended audience

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor s degree in Linguistics, Telugu/English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant professional experience may be considered
• Native or near-native Telugu proficiency, with strong reading and writing ability required
• Professional English proficiency at C1 level or above, with the ability to understand guidelines and provide detailed feedback in English
• Strong working experience in writing, editing, localization, translation, content QA, journalism, education, or other language-focused work
• Deep understanding of Telugu grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, style, terminology, and idiomatic expression
• Strong ability to explain linguistic errors, meaning issues, tone mismatches, cultural concerns, and recommended corrections clearly
• Comfortable working across formal and informal registers, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana regional variation, and audience adaptation for India and Telugu diaspora communities
• High attention to detail when identifying subtle meaning shifts, mistranslations, unnatural phrasing, factual hallucinations, and cultural mismatches
• Strong analytical judgment when evaluating AI-generated language quality, reasoning quality, factual reliability, and instruction adherence
• Excellent written communication skills in both Telugu and English
• Familiarity with translation quality review, proofreading, copyediting, localization, fact-checking, grammar and style review, and tone/register assessment preferred
• Previous experience with AI data training, annotation, translation QA, editorial QA, or rubric-based evaluation strongly preferred
• Familiarity with AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, or similar platforms preferred
• Reliable remote-work practices, confidentiality handling, self-direction, and consistency across structured evaluation workflows required