Remote Swahili NLP Linguist (Contract)

Confidential; United States; Remote; USD 41,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential, in partnership with a leading AI research lab, seeks experienced Swahili Linguistic Experts for a 100% remote contract role evaluating LLM Swahili outputs and curating high-quality Swahili data to train and improve language understanding and generation.

You will annotate, edit, and provide linguistic feedback across translation, summarization, dialogue, and grammar tasks, collaborating with researchers on model improvements. Strong Swahili and English fluency are required.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native fluency in Swahili with excellent grammar and stylistic control.
• Professional experience in translation, editing, linguistic annotation, or NLP data work in Swahili.
• Strong understanding of Swahili nuances, regional variations, and context-appropriate usage.
• Professional fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the quality and accuracy of LLM-generated Swahili text across translation, summarization, dialogue, and grammar tasks.
• Edit, refine, or rewrite Swahili content to meet linguistic and cultural standards for Swahili-speaking audiences.
• Annotate Swahili text for grammatical, syntactic, and semantic features.
• Identify model errors and language gaps and collaborate with AI researchers to improve LLM performance.
• Provide detailed linguistic feedback and analysis to guide ongoing model training.

Job description

Confidential, in partnership with a leading AI research lab, seeks experienced Swahili Linguistic Experts for a 100% remote contract role evaluating LLM Swahili outputs and curating high-quality Swahili data to train and improve language understanding and generation.

You will annotate, edit, and provide linguistic feedback across translation, summarization, dialogue, and grammar tasks, collaborating with researchers on model improvements. Strong Swahili and English fluency are required.