German Team Lead

AI Trainer Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 68,000 - 97,000; Part time

Job summary

SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, seeks a German Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) for remote hourly contractor work. You will review AI-generated German content and oversee trainer/QA performance to ensure high-quality outputs.

You will assess accuracy, tone, culture, and adherence to rubrics, provide precise feedback, and maintain German project documentation. Strong German and English, detail orientation, and remote-work management are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in German, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a related field.
• Native or near-native German proficiency with strong reading and writing skills.
• Strong grasp of English to follow project guidelines and provide feedback in English.
• 3+ years of professional experience in German writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of German grammar, spelling, punctuation, and cultural context.
• Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, editors, or QAs is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check German items and provide ongoing feedback.
• Trainer and QA communication: Update trainers and QAs on guidelines and project changes.
• Question handling: Respond clearly to German wording questions.
• Activation management: DM inactive contributors and track availability.
• Documentation: Create and maintain German project docs and style guides.
• Onboarding and training: Run onboarding/training calls explaining expectations.
• Quality alignment: Ensure consistent adherence to German guidelines.
• Process improvement: Identify gaps and help build scalable QA processes.

Skills

German

Documentation

Style Guides

Translation Quality Review

LLM evaluation

AI Training

German Quality Assurance

Localization QA

English

Trainer Feedback

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in German/ Linguistics/ Translation/ Communications/ Journalism/ English/ Education/ Quality Assurance

Tools

Discord

Google Sheets

Google Docs

Trackers

Dashboards

Project management systems

Job description

Pay: up to $60/hour

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a German Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across German AI training projects. You will review AI-generated German 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 German 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 German quality leadership will directly help improve the world's premier AI models by ensuring that German 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.

Important:

There is no immediate project for this role; however, if qualified, you will be among the first experts we reach out to when relevant opportunities arise. This will also provide you with access to future projects available through our expert network.

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check German items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and escape 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 German wording, grammar, tone, register, translation fidelity, cultural context, terminology, and Germany/Austria/Switzerland usage differences.
• 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 German 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 German-specific style requirements.
• Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply German 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 German-language projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in German, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant domain/related field.
• Native or near-native German 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 German writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of German grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, capitalization, compounds, cases, tone, register, business writing norms, and cultural context.
• Comfortable handling Germany, Austria, and Switzerland German usage differences where relevant, including vocabulary, spelling, tone, and localization expectations.
• Ability to evaluate German content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as mistranslation, literal phrasing, unnatural tone, incorrect case usage, awkward compounds, 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: Documentation, German, Style Guides, Translation Quality Review, LLM evaluation, AI Training, German Quality Assurance, Localization QA, English, Trainer Feedback

Open to candidates in: Austria, Germany

Interview language: English