Estonian Team Lead

AI Trainer Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 33,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

SME Careers is seeking an Estonian Quality Assurance Lead to oversee quality and trainer performance across Estonia-focused AI training projects. The role is a remote contractor working with distributed teams and requires strong Estonian and English skills, attention to detail, and experience in QA workflows.

You will monitor quality, provide feedback, and help onboard and activate trainers and QAs while maintaining thorough documentation and style guides.

Qualifications

• Must have native or near-native Estonian skills and strong English proficiency.
• 3+ years in Estonian writing/editing/QA or related language-review workflows.
• Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, or QAs preferred.

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: spot-check Estonian items and provide ongoing feedback.
• Communicate updates to trainers and QAs on Discord about new guidelines and workflow changes.
• Handle questions about Estonian wording, grammar, case endings, compounds, and cultural context.
• Activate inactive contributors; track follow-ups and flag availability issues.
• Create and maintain Estonian project documentation, style guides, FAQs, and onboarding materials.
• Lead onboarding/training calls to explain project expectations and rubrics.
• Ensure consistent application of Estonian language guidelines as projects evolve.
• Identify recurring quality gaps and suggest scalable QA process improvements.

Skills

Estonian fluency

English proficiency

Remote team leadership

Quality assurance

Attention to detail

Documentation

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Estonian/linguistics/translation/communications

Tools

Discord

Google Sheets

Google Docs

Job description

Pay: up to $40/hour

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as an Estonian Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across Estonian AI training projects. You will review AI-generated Estonian content and trainer/QA work, evaluate output quality against project guidelines, provide precise written feedback, and ensure that all contributors follow the expected quality standards.

You will assess work for accuracy, fluency, grammar, spelling, tone, cultural appropriateness, meaning preservation, instruction-following, formatting, and adherence to project-specific rubrics. You will spot recurring quality issues, communicate updates to trainers and QAs, support onboarding, maintain documentation, and help activate contributors who are not working consistently. This role requires strong Estonian and English skills, excellent attention to detail, structured communication, and the ability to manage quality workflows across remote teams.

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 Estonian quality leadership will directly help improve the world’s premier AI models by ensuring that Estonian training data is natural, accurate, culturally appropriate, well-documented, and aligned with client expectations.

Selection process involves an AI interview, a domain-specific task, and an interview with a recruiter.

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check Estonian items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and elevate 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 Estonian wording, grammar, case endings, compounds, register, translation fidelity, cultural context, terminology, 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 Estonian 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 Estonian-specific style requirements.
• Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply Estonian 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 Estonian-language projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Estonian, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant domain/related field.
• Native or near-native Estonian proficiency with strong reading and writing skills.
• Strong grasp of the English language to follow project guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear feedback in English.
• 3+ years of professional experience in Estonian writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of Estonian grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, diacritics, case endings, compounds, word order, tone, register, and cultural context.
• Ability to evaluate Estonian content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as mistranslation, literal phrasing, unnatural tone, incorrect case usage, missing diacritics, hallucinated claims, ambiguity, or inconsistent terminology.
• 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 project management systems.
• Highly detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to maintain style guides, FAQs, trackers, onboarding materials, honeypots, and other quality documentation.
• Experience with AI training, data annotation, large language models, prompt/response evaluation, or rubric-based LLM QA is a strong plus.

Skills: LLM evaluation, Estonian, Estonian Quality Assurance, Translation Quality Review, Trainer Feedback, AI Training, Documentation, Style Guides, English, Localization QA

Open to candidates in: Estonia

Interview language: English