Linguistics Experts

Job Title: Linguistics Experts

Job Type: Part-Time (20 Hours per week)

Location: India, Remote

Job Summary:

Join our team as a Linguistics Expert and play a pivotal role in shaping how AI understands and represents Indian languages. This is a unique opportunity to impact the future of language technology by evaluating AI outputs for linguistic authenticity, cultural nuance, and natural expression in English and Indian languages.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess AI-generated text for linguistic fidelity, including code-switching, transliteration, and dialectal usage between English and Indian languages.
• Evaluate register, tone, and pragmatic appropriateness to ensure responses align with real-life Indian language contexts.
• Identify unnatural, Westernized, or culturally inappropriate phrasing and provide constructive feedback for improvement.
• Apply rubric-based criteria to systematically score and annotate language data for quality assurance.
• Deliver clear, thorough written explanations of evaluation decisions in English.
• Collaborate remotely with a diverse team to maintain high standards in dataset development.
• Contribute insights on Indian language dynamics, code-mixing trends, and regional language variations.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, Translation, Localization, or related Language Studies.
• Native or near-native proficiency in Hindi and at least one additional Indian language (e.g., Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi).
• 3+ years of experience in translation, localization, language quality assurance, or linguistic research.
• Demonstrated expertise in code-switching and bilingual evaluation (English plus Indian languages).
• Acute sensitivity to register, tone, and pragmatic factors in bilingual contexts.
• Strong analytical skills in text evaluation and linguistic quality control.
• Exceptional explanatory writing and clear communication in English.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working on AI, NLP, or language dataset annotation projects.
• Insight into regional dialectal variation or sociolinguistic trends within Indian languages.
• Proven ability to work independently in a remote, collaborative environment.