Punjabi Language Expert

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 while providing clear, precise written feedback. You will assess AI outputs for accuracy, fluency, grammar, spelling, tone, cultural relevance, and adherence to prompts. Identifying errors such as mistranslations, ambiguity, register inconsistencies (formal vs. informal), and logical flaws is essential. Additionally, you will fact-check claims when necessary, produce high-quality rewrites and model answers that exemplify best practices in Punjabi writing, and rate multiple AI responses based on correctness and overall quality.

This opportunity is with SME Careers, a rapidly growing AI data services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, which supplies training data to some of the world’s leading AI companies and foundation-model labs. Your expertise in Punjabi will directly contribute to enhancing the naturalness, reliability, cultural accuracy, and clarity of AI-generated Punjabi language outputs.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop AI Training Content: Create prompts and gold-standard Punjabi answers across various domains, including general knowledge, customer support, education, and conversational writing.
- Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI-generated outputs to improve fluency, accuracy, tone alignment, and cultural appropriateness.
- Ensure Model Integrity: Identify unsafe or misleading content, factual inaccuracies (hallucinations), bias, and policy-risk language; validate the reliability of outputs across different use cases.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Linguistics, Punjabi/English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Native or near-native proficiency in Punjabi, with strong reading and writing skills.
- Professional-level English proficiency (minimum C1) to accurately follow guidelines and 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 understanding of Punjabi grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style, with the ability to clearly explain errors and corrections.
- Comfortable working 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), dialectal variations, and audience adaptations (India, Pakistan, diaspora).
- Exceptional 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 different time zones.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits

- Prior experience with AI data training, annotation, translation quality assurance, editorial quality assurance, or rubric-based evaluation is highly preferred.
- Opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge AI language model development and work with a dynamic, fast-growing company in the AI data services sector.

This role offers a flexible, remote working arrangement, allowing you to apply your Punjabi language expertise to improve AI technologies used globally.