Maltese Language Expert — AI Content QA & Editing

AI Trainer Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, seeks a Maltese Language Expert to review AI outputs and create high-quality Maltese reference content. This remote hourly contractor role focuses on accuracy, tone, and cultural appropriateness across Maltese content.

You will provide detailed feedback in English, write rewrites and model answers, and help improve AI models for Maltese language tasks through rigorous evaluation and localization QA practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Linguistics, Maltese Language, Maltese Literature, English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or related field.
• Native or near-native Maltese proficiency, with strong reading and writing skills 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 Maltese grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, Semitic roots, Romance and English loanwords, verb forms, articles, prepositions, tone, and style—able to explain why something is wrong and how to fix it.
• Comfortable handling multiple registers, including formal, neutral, conversational, professional, educational, public-facing Maltese, and Maltese-English code-switching, depending on audience and project requirements.
• High attention to detail when spotting subtle meaning shifts, awkward literal translations, incorrect verb forms, unnatural loanword usage, hallucinated claims, English- or Italian-influenced phrasing, or culturally mismatched wording.
• 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, localization QA, or rubric-based evaluation is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI Training Content: Create prompts and gold-standard Maltese answers across multiple domains, including general knowledge, customer support, education, conversational writing, translation, localization, and culturally sensitive content.
• Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI outputs to improve fluency, correctness, tone match, register consistency, meaning preservation, terminology quality, and cultural appropriateness.
• Ensure Model Integrity: Detect unsafe or misleading content, factual hallucinations, bias, mistranslations, ambiguity, policy-risk language, and culturally inappropriate phrasing; validate reliability across use cases.

Skills

Maltese

English

Localization

Translation Quality Review

Tone & Register

Proofreading

Fact-checking

Grammar & Style

Cultural context

Keywords Copyediting

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Linguistics, Maltese Language, Maltese Literature, English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or related field

Job description

SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, seeks a Maltese Language Expert to review AI outputs and create high-quality Maltese reference content. This remote hourly contractor role focuses on accuracy, tone, and cultural appropriateness across Maltese content.

You will provide detailed feedback in English, write rewrites and model answers, and help improve AI models for Maltese language tasks through rigorous evaluation and localization QA practices.