Urdu Language Expert📣 Job Ad

About the Role

SME Careers, a subsidiary of SuperAnnotate and an expanding AI Data Services company, is seeking an Urdu Language Specialist for a remote, contract-based hourly position. This role is instrumental in improving the quality of AI-generated Urdu content. The specialist will meticulously review AI outputs and develop high-quality reference content, providing detailed written feedback and step-by-step reasoning. Your contributions will directly support the enhancement of leading AI models, ensuring their Urdu language output is more natural, reliable, culturally accurate, and clearly written.

This position offers an opportunity to contribute to AI technology advancement by ensuring linguistic accuracy and cultural appropriateness in Urdu. While no specific project is currently assigned, qualified candidates will be prioritized for future relevant opportunities and gain access to an expert network for ongoing projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Review AI-generated Urdu content and/or create high-quality Urdu reference content, evaluating language quality and reasoning while providing precise written feedback.
• Assess AI outputs for accuracy, fluency, grammar, spelling, tone, cultural appropriateness, and adherence to prompts.
• Identify errors in meaning, mistranslation, register (formal vs informal), ambiguity, RTL/script formatting, and logical consistency in AI-generated content.
• Conduct fact-checking of claims made in AI-generated content as needed.
• Write high-quality rewrites and model answers that exemplify best practices in Urdu writing.
• Rate and compare multiple AI responses based on correctness and overall quality.
• Develop AI training content by creating prompts and gold-standard Urdu answers across various domains, including general knowledge, customer support, education, conversational writing, translation, localization, and culturally sensitive content.
• Optimize AI performance by evaluating and ranking AI outputs to improve fluency, correctness, tone match, register consistency, meaning preservation, RTL/script formatting, and cultural appropriateness.
• Ensure model integrity by detecting unsafe or misleading content, factual hallucinations, bias, mistranslations, ambiguity, policy-risk language, and culturally inappropriate phrasing, and validating reliability across use cases.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Native or near-native proficiency in Urdu, with strong reading and writing skills.
• Strong professional proficiency in English, with a minimum of C1 level, to effectively follow guidelines and provide detailed feedback in English.
• A Bachelor's degree or higher in Linguistics, Urdu Literature, 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 related language-focused work.
• A deep understanding of Urdu grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, Nastaliq/script conventions, right-to-left formatting, tone, and style, with the ability to explain errors and provide solutions.
• Comfort and capability in handling multiple registers of Urdu, including formal/literary Urdu, conversational Urdu, Pakistan Urdu, India Urdu, and Urdu-English code-switching, as dictated by audience and project requirements.
• High attention to detail for spotting subtle meaning shifts, awkward literal translations, incorrect gender or verb agreement, hallucinated claims, unnatural Persianized/Arabicized wording, or culturally mismatched phrasing.
• Must be reliable, self-directed, and capable of delivering consistent quality within an hourly, remote contractor workflow across different time zones.

Required Skills

• Urdu Language Expertise
• AI Training Content Development
• AI Performance Optimization
• Model Integrity Assurance
• Writing
• Editing
• Localization
• Translation
• Content Quality Assurance (QA)
• Journalism
• Education
• AI Data Training/Annotation
• Translation QA
• Editorial QA
• Localization QA
• Rubric-based Evaluation

Work Environment and Contract Details

This is an hourly, remote contractor role. The company is SME Careers, and the role is based in Saudi Arabia. The required experience is 2-5 years.