Telugu Language Expert (Remote)

SuperAnnotate AI, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

SME Careers, a subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, seeks a Telugu Language Specialist to review AI-generated content and craft high-quality reference material. This is an hourly, remote contractor role requiring native or near-native Telugu and strong English, with strict adherence to guidelines and accuracy in translation QA.

You will evaluate outputs for grammar, tone, cultural appropriateness, and factual correctness, provide precise rewrites, and rate AI responses to help improve Telugu language

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in linguistics or related field.
• Native or near-native Telugu writing ability.
• Strong English (C1) to provide feedback in English.
• 3+ years in language-focused work such as translation QA or editorial QA.
• Experience with AI data training or evaluation preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review English ARC questions translations for accuracy and faithfulness.
• Select outcomes and provide brief review comments.

Skills

Telugu expertise

English Proficiency

Attention to detail

Remote work

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics/Translation

Tools

CAT tools

Job description

About This Role

Interview language: English

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

Your profile

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Linguistics, Telugu/English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Native or near-native Telugu 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 Telugu grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, and style - able to explain why something is wrong and how to fix it.
• Comfortable handling multiple registers (formal/informal), regional variation (e.g., Andhra Pradesh vs Telangana usage), and audience adaptation (India 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.

Key responsibilities

• Task Description: Review and quality-check existing translations of English science benchmark questions (ARC) in your target language. For each item, you’ll compare the original translation and an AI-proposed correction against the English source, focusing strictly on accuracy and faithfulness rather than stylistic improvement .
• You’ll review the question and answer choices only , select the appropriate outcome (accept the original, accept the AI correction, edit the final translation, or elevate), and provide a brief review comment. The goal is to preserve the source exactly - including its meaning, difficulty, answer structure, scientific terminology, and protected elements - while following the provided core and language-specific guidelines.