Linguistics Experts
Required Skills
bilingual judgment (English + Indian languages)
Sensitivity to tone and pragmatics
Text evaluation
Clear explanatory writing in English
Job Description
Job Title: Linguistics Experts
Job Type: Part-Time (20 Hours per week)
Location: India (Preference to New Delhi based candidates)
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.