Malayalam Language Expert

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Develop AI training content: create prompts and gold-standard Malayalam answers across multiple domains.
• 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 hallucinations, bias, and policy-risk language.
• Assess outputs for accuracy, fluency, grammar, spelling, tone, cultural appropriateness, and adherence to the prompt.
• Identify errors in meaning, mistranslation, register, ambiguity, and logical consistency.
• Fact-check claims when needed.
• Write high-quality rewrites and model answers demonstrating best practices in Malayalam writing.
• Rate and compare multiple AI responses based on correctness and overall quality.

Your Profile

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Linguistics, Malayalam/English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Native or near-native Malayalam proficiency (reading and writing required).
• Strong professional proficiency in English (minimum C1).
• 3+ years of professional experience in writing, editing, localization, translation, content QA, journalism, education, or related language-focused work.
• Deep understanding of Malayalam grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, and style.
• Comfortable handling multiple registers, dialect variation across Kerala, and audience adaptation.
• High attention to detail when spotting subtle meaning shifts, awkward literal translations, hallucinated claims, or culturally mismatched phrasing.
• Reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, translation QA, editorial QA, or rubric-based evaluation is strongly preferred.

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