Malayalam Language Expert

SME Careers; Riyadh; Remote; SAR 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company, seeks a Malayalam Language Specialist to review and enhance Malayalam content for AI models. You will evaluate fluency, grammar, tone, and cultural alignment, delivering precise feedback and high-quality rewrites.

The role is hourly, remote, and contractor-based, enabling flexible collaboration across time zones while contributing to premier AI model training.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native Malayalam proficiency required.
• Strong command of English (C1) to provide feedback in English.
• 3+ years of professional experience in writing, editing, localization, translation, or related language work.
• Deep understanding of Malayalam grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.

Responsibilities

• Review AI-generated Malayalam content and create high-quality reference content.
• Evaluate outputs for fluency, accuracy, tone, and cultural appropriateness; identify errors.
• Provide precise feedback and model rewrites to demonstrate best practices in Malayalam writing.

Skills

Malayalam language proficiency

English proficiency (C1)

Attention to detail

Editorial QA skills

Localization & translation

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Linguistics/Related field

Job description

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

Key Responsibilities

• Develop AI Training Content: Create prompts and gold-standard Malayalam 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, Malayalam/English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Native or near-native Malayalam 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 Malayalam grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, and style - able to explain why something is wrong and how to fix it.
• Comfortable handling multiple registers (formal/informal), dialect variation across Kerala, 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.