Urdu Language Expert

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Develop AI training content: create prompts and gold-standard Urdu answers across multiple domains.
• Optimize AI performance: evaluate and rank AI outputs for fluency, correctness, tone, register, meaning, RTL formatting, and cultural appropriateness.
• Ensure model integrity: detect unsafe or misleading content, hallucinations, bias, mistranslations, ambiguity, and culturally inappropriate phrasing.

Your Profile

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Linguistics, Urdu Literature, English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Native or near-native Urdu proficiency with strong reading and writing skills required.
• Strong professional English proficiency, minimum C1.
• 3+ years of professional experience in writing, editing, localization, translation, content QA, journalism, education, or related language work.
• Deep understanding of Urdu grammar, spelling, punctuation, Nastaliq/script conventions, RTL formatting, tone, and style.
• Comfortable handling multiple registers including formal/literary, conversational, Pakistan Urdu, India Urdu, and Urdu-English code-switching.
• High attention to detail for subtle meaning shifts, mistranslations, agreement errors, hallucinations, and culturally mismatched phrasing.
• Reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly remote contractor workflow across time zones.
• Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, translation QA, editorial QA, localization QA, or rubric-based evaluation is strongly preferred.

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