Indonesian Language Specialist

Agency; United States; Remote; USD 32,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Agency is seeking a linguist with deep Indonesian language expertise to assist with advanced language model evaluation and data refinement. You will analyze grammar, semantics, and pragmatics, and help shape prompts and evaluation metrics as a contractor.

This remote role requires providing your own secure computer and high-speed internet, plus documenting failure modes, capturing error traces, and reporting findings to improve model accuracy.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Indonesian grammar, syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics.
• Ability to analyze sentence structure, verb conjugation, and regional dialects.
• Strong metacognitive communication skills to show your work.
• Ability to work as a contractor with own secure computer and high-speed internet.

Responsibilities

• Converse with language models on various language scenarios.
• Verify factual accuracy and logical soundness of model outputs.
• Capture reproducible error traces and document failure modes.
• Suggest improvements to prompt engineering and evaluation metrics.
• Challenge models on grammar, syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics.

Skills

Indonesian grammar

Indonesian syntax

Indonesian morphology

Indonesian phonology

Indonesian semantics

Indonesian pragmatics

Sentence structure analysis

Verb conjugation analysis

Metacognitive communication

Remote contractor readiness

Education

Master's or PhD in Indonesian language or linguistics

Publications in linguistics

Teaching or linguistic analysis projects

Tools

Secure computer

High-speed internet

Job description

Responsibilities

• Converse with language models on various language scenarios
• Verify factual accuracy and logical soundness of model outputs
• Capture reproducible error traces and document failure modes
• Suggest improvements to prompt engineering and evaluation metrics
• Challenge models on grammar, syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics

Requirements

• Expertise in Indonesian grammar, syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics
• Ability to analyze sentence structure, verb conjugation, and regional dialects
• Strong metacognitive communication skills to "show your work"
• Ability to work as a contractor with own secure computer and high-speed internet

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Indonesian language, linguistics, or a closely related field
• Peer-reviewed publications in linguistics
• Teaching experience or hands-on linguistic analysis projects

About the Company

We are working to power the next generation of AI by providing high-quality training data to help large-scale language models evolve into powerful engines of linguistic discovery.