Punjabi Expert with Mathematical Background

In this hourly, remote contractor position, you will serve as a Punjabi Language Specialist (Subject Matter Expert) responsible for reviewing AI-generated Punjabi content and creating high-quality reference materials. Your role involves evaluating language quality and reasoning processes, providing detailed written feedback, and ensuring outputs meet high standards of accuracy, fluency, grammar, spelling, tone, and cultural relevance. You will identify errors such as mistranslations, ambiguity, register inconsistencies, and logical flaws, fact-check claims when necessary, and produce exemplary rewrites and model answers that reflect best practices in Punjabi writing. Additionally, you will rate and compare multiple AI responses to help improve the overall quality of AI language models.

This opportunity is with SME Careers, a rapidly growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate. The company supports some of the world’s leading AI organizations by delivering training data that enhances the naturalness, reliability, and cultural accuracy of Punjabi language outputs in AI models.

Key Responsibilities
- Develop AI training content by creating prompts and gold-standard Punjabi answers across various domains, including general knowledge, customer support, education, and conversational writing.
- Optimize AI performance by evaluating and ranking AI-generated outputs to improve fluency, correctness, tone alignment, and cultural appropriateness.
- Ensure model integrity by detecting unsafe or misleading content, factual inaccuracies (hallucinations), bias, and policy-risk language; validate reliability across different use cases.

Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher, preferably in Mathematics or a related field.
- Native or near-native proficiency in Punjabi, with strong reading and writing skills.
- Professional proficiency in English at a minimum C1 level, enabling clear understanding of guidelines and the ability to provide detailed feedback in English.
- At least three years of professional experience in writing, editing, localization, translation, content quality assurance, journalism, education, or other language-focused roles.
- Deep knowledge of Punjabi grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, and style, with the ability to explain errors and suggest corrections clearly.
- Familiarity with Punjabi scripts, including Gurmukhi (India) and/or Shahmukhi (Pakistan); candidates should specify which script(s) they can read and write.
- Ability to handle multiple registers (formal and informal), dialect variations, and adapt content for different audiences (India, Pakistan, diaspora).
- High attention to detail in identifying subtle shifts in meaning, awkward literal translations, hallucinated claims, or culturally inappropriate phrasing.
- Reliable, self-motivated, and capable of maintaining consistent quality in a remote, hourly contractor role across various time zones.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits
- Prior experience working with AI data training, annotation, translation quality assurance, editorial QA, or rubric-based evaluation is highly desirable.
- This role offers the chance to contribute directly to improving cutting-edge AI language models, impacting how Punjabi is represented and understood in technology worldwide.
- Flexible remote work arrangement allows for a work-life balance suited to individual schedules.

This position is ideal for language professionals passionate about Punjabi linguistics and eager to apply their expertise to advance AI technology in a meaningful way.