Punjabi Language Expert

AI Trainer Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 12,000 - 21,000; Part time

Job summary

SME Careers is seeking a Punjabi Language Specialist (SME) to review and create Punjabi reference content for AI training. You will assess AI outputs for accuracy, grammar, tone, and cultural appropriateness, provide detailed feedback in English, and craft high-quality rewrites and model answers.

You must have a Bachelor’s degree or higher, native Punjabi reading/writing, and 3+ years in language-focused roles, with strong attention to detail across scripts (Gurmukhi and/or Shahmukhi) and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Native or near-native Punjabi reading/writing required.
• Strong professional English (C1) to provide feedback in English.
• 3+ years in writing, editing, translation, or language-focused roles.
• Knowledge of Gurmukhi and/or Shahmukhi scripts and registers.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI training content with Punjabi prompts and answers.
• Evaluate and rank AI outputs for fluency, tone, and cultural accuracy.
• Identify unsafe or biased content and ensure model integrity.

Skills

Punjabi language proficiency

English language proficiency (C1)

Attention to detail

Editing/QA experience

Rubric-based evaluation

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

AI data training tools

Localization/Translation QA tools

Job description

Pay: up to $15/hour

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

Responsibilities

• Develop AI Training Content: Create prompts and gold-standard Punjabi 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Linguistics, Punjabi/English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Native or near-native Punjabi 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 Punjabi grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, and style—able to explain why something is wrong and how to fix it.
• Comfortable handling script requirements as needed: Gurmukhi (India) and/or Shahmukhi (Pakistan). Please indicate which script(s) you can read/write.
• Comfortable handling multiple registers (formal/informal), dialect variation, and audience adaptation (India vs Pakistan 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.

Skills: English, proofreading, Translation Quality Review, cultural context, Localization, Grammar & Style, Fact-checking, Punjabi, Tone & Register, Copyediting

Open to candidates in: Canada, India, Pakistan

Interview language: English