Telugu QA Lead - Remote AI Training Quality Champion

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

Job summary

SME Careers, a subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, seeks a Telugu Quality Assurance Lead for an hourly remote contractor role. You will oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across Telugu AI training projects, review content, and provide precise feedback to ensure adherence to guidelines.

You will monitor accuracy, fluency, tone, and cultural context, coordinate with remote trainers and QAs, and help onboard and document quality processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Telugu, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a related field.
• Native or near-native Telugu proficiency with strong reading and writing skills.
• Strong English language to follow project guidelines and provide feedback in English.
• 3+ years of professional experience in Telugu writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of Telugu grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, tone, register, regional variation, and cultural context.
• Ability to evaluate Telugu 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 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.

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check Telugu items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and elevate 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 Telugu wording, register, translation fidelity, cultural context, Andhra Pradesh vs Telangana usage, 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 Telugu 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 Telugu-specific style requirements.
• Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply Telugu 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 Telugu-language projects.

Skills

Telugu writing

English proficiency

Quality assurance

Remote team leadership

Documentation

Rubric-based QA

Onboarding

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Telugu/related field

Tools

Discord

Google Sheets

Google Docs

Trackers

Dashboards

Project management systems

Job description

SME Careers, a subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, seeks a Telugu Quality Assurance Lead for an hourly remote contractor role. You will oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across Telugu AI training projects, review content, and provide precise feedback to ensure adherence to guidelines.

You will monitor accuracy, fluency, tone, and cultural context, coordinate with remote trainers and QAs, and help onboard and document quality processes.