In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as an Odia (Oriya) Language Specialist (SME) to review AI-generated Odia content and/or create high-quality Odia reference content, evaluating language quality and step-by-step reasoning while providing precise written feedback. You will assess outputs for accuracy, fluency, grammar, spelling, tone, cultural appropriateness, and adherence to the prompt; identify errors in meaning, mistranslation, register (formal vs informal), ambiguity, and logical consistency; fact-check claims when needed; write high-quality rewrites and model answers that demonstrate best practices in Odia writing; and rate and compare multiple AI responses based on correctness and overall quality.<br><br>This role is with SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs. Your Odia expertise directly helps improve the world’s premier AI models by making their Odia language output more natural, reliable, culturally accurate, and clearly written.<br><br><strong>Key Responsibilities<br><br></strong><ul><li> Develop AI Training Content: Create prompts and gold-standard Odia answers across multiple domains (general knowledge, customer support, education, conversational writing).</li><li> Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI outputs to improve fluency, correctness, tone match, and cultural appropriateness.</li><li> Ensure Model Integrity: Detect unsafe or misleading content, factual hallucinations, bias, and policy-risk language; validate reliability across use cases.<br><br></li></ul><strong>Your Profile<br><br></strong><ul><li> Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Linguistics, Odia/English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).</li><li> Native or near-native Odia proficiency (reading and writing required).</li><li> Strong professional proficiency in English (minimum C1) to follow guidelines and provide detailed feedback in English.</li><li> 3+ years of professional experience in writing, editing, localization, translation, content QA, journalism, education, or related language-focused work.</li><li> Deep understanding of Odia grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, and style—able to explain why something is wrong and how to fix it.</li><li> Comfortable handling multiple registers (formal/informal), regional variation within Odisha, and audience adaptation (India vs diaspora).</li><li> High attention to detail when spotting subtle meaning shifts, awkward literal translations, hallucinated claims, or culturally mismatched phrasing.</li><li> Reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.</li><li> Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, translation QA, editorial QA, or rubric-based evaluation is strongly preferred.</li></ul>