Telugu LLM Linguistic Specialist - Remote Contract

Zekai; United States; Remote; USD 34,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

Zekai is seeking experienced Telugu Linguistic Experts for a remote contract role to support an AI research project with a leading research lab. You will evaluate LLM Telugu outputs, edit content for linguistic quality, and annotate data to improve model understanding and generation capabilities.

The ideal candidate is a native or near-native Telugu speaker with translation/editing/NLP data experience, strong linguistic insight, and comfortable working in a distributed, remote team.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native fluency in Telugu with excellent grammar, syntax and stylistics.
• Experience in translation, editing, linguistic annotation, or NLP data work in Telugu.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the quality and accuracy of Telugu text generated by LLM across use cases.
• Edit and refine Telugu content to meet linguistic and cultural standards.
• Annotate Telugu text for grammatical, syntactic, and semantic features.
• Identify model errors and language gaps; collaborate with researchers to improve performance.
• Provide linguistic feedback to guide model training.

Skills

Telugu fluency

Editing

Linguistic annotation

NLP data work

Tools

Annotation tools

Job description

Zekai is seeking experienced Telugu Linguistic Experts for a remote contract role to support an AI research project with a leading research lab. You will evaluate LLM Telugu outputs, edit content for linguistic quality, and annotate data to improve model understanding and generation capabilities.

The ideal candidate is a native or near-native Telugu speaker with translation/editing/NLP data experience, strong linguistic insight, and comfortable working in a distributed, remote team.