Kannada Language Expert📣 Job Ad

About the Role

SME Careers, an AI Data Services company and a subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, is seeking a Kannada Language Expert for a remote contract position. This role involves contributing to the enhancement of AI models by ensuring their Kannada language output is natural, reliable, culturally accurate, and clearly written. The expert will refine AI capabilities through the review of AI-generated Kannada content and the creation of high-quality reference content.

Core Responsibilities

The Kannada Language Expert will evaluate language quality and step-by-step reasoning, providing detailed written feedback on AI outputs. This feedback will cover accuracy, fluency, grammar, spelling, tone, cultural appropriateness, and adherence to prompts. Key tasks include identifying errors in meaning, mistranslations, register discrepancies, ambiguity, and logical inconsistencies. Fact-checking claims and writing high-quality rewrites and model answers that exemplify best practices in Kannada writing are also essential. The role also involves rating and comparing multiple AI responses based on correctness and overall quality.

Key Contributions to AI Development

• Develop AI Training Content: Create prompts and gold-standard Kannada answers across various domains, including general knowledge, customer support, education, and conversational writing.
• Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI outputs to improve fluency, correctness, tone match, and cultural appropriateness.
• Ensure Model Integrity: Detect unsafe or misleading content, factual inaccuracies, bias, and policy-risk language, while validating reliability across different use cases.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Native or near-native proficiency in Kannada, including reading and writing.
• Strong professional proficiency in English, at a minimum C1 level, to effectively follow guidelines and provide feedback.
• A Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Linguistics, Kannada/English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• A minimum of 3 years of professional experience in writing, editing, localization, translation, content QA, journalism, education, or other language-focused roles.
• A deep understanding of Kannada grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, and style, with the ability to articulate and correct errors.
• Comfort in handling multiple language registers (formal/informal), regional variations in Kannada, and adapting content for different audiences.
• High attention to detail for identifying subtle meaning shifts, factual inaccuracies, or culturally inappropriate phrasing.
• The ability to work reliably and independently in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across different time zones.
• Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, translation QA, editorial QA, or rubric-based evaluation is strongly preferred.

Skills Profile

• Kannada Language expertise (native or near-native proficiency)
• English Language proficiency (minimum C1)
• Writing and Editing
• Localization and Translation
• Content Quality Assurance (QA)
• Journalism and Education
• AI Data Training
• Translation QA and Editorial QA
• Rubric-based Evaluation

Work Arrangement and Next Steps

This is an hourly, remote contract role. While there is no immediate project for this position, qualified candidates will be contacted when relevant opportunities arise. This role also offers access to future projects within the expert network. The selection process includes an AI interview, a domain-specific task, and an interview with a recruiter.