Punjabi Team Lead with Mathematical Background

SME Careers; United States; Remote; USD 34,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

SME Careers is seeking a Punjabi Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) for an hourly remote contractor role. You will oversee quality across Punjabi AI training projects, review AI-generated content, and provide precise feedback to trainers and QAs.

Strong Punjabi and English skills, detail orientation, and remote teamwork are essential. Responsibilities include monitoring quality, updating guidelines, documentation, onboarding, and process improvements to ensure adherence to project rubrics and cultural

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mathematics required.
• Native or near-native Punjabi proficiency with strong reading/writing skills.
• Strong English to follow guidelines and provide feedback in English.
• 3+ years in Punjabi writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, or related workflows.
• Knowledge of Punjabi grammar, spelling, tone, and cultural context.
• Ability to read/write Gurmukhi and/or Shahmukhi scripts.

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: spot-check Punjabi items and provide feedback.
• Trainer/QA communication: update team on guidelines and changes.
• Answer questions on Punjabi wording, register, and cultural context.
• Activation management: engage inactive contributors and track follow-ups.
• Documentation: create Punjabi project docs, style guides, FAQs, and onboarding materials.
• Onboarding and training: run sessions to explain expectations and rubrics.
• Quality alignment: ensure consistency with language guidelines across projects.
• Process improvement: identify gaps and propose scalable QA workflows.

Skills

Punjabi proficiency

English proficiency

Attention to detail

Remote team coordination

Quality feedback

AI training familiarity

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Mathematics

Tools

Discord

Google Sheets

Google Docs

Trackers

Dashboards

Project management systems

Job description

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Punjabi Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across Punjabi AI training projects. You will review AI-generated Punjabi 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 Punjabi 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 Punjabi quality leadership will directly help improve the world’s premier AI models by ensuring that Punjabi 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 Punjabi items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and escalation 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 Punjabi wording, register, translation fidelity, cultural context, dialect variation, Gurmukhi/Shahmukhi script requirements, 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 Punjabi 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 Punjabi-specific style/script requirements.
• Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply Punjabi 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 Punjabi-language projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mathematics
• Native or near-native Punjabi 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 Punjabi writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of Punjabi grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, tone, register, dialect variation, and cultural context.
• Comfortable handling Gurmukhi and/or Shahmukhi script requirements. Candidates should clearly specify which script(s) they can read and write.
• Ability to evaluate Punjabi content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as mistranslation, literal phrasing, unnatural tone, 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.