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Malay Language Expert

SME Careers

AI Expert – Linguistics & Language Contractor Ongoing
Malaysia Up to $20/hr June 11, 2026

Job description

About the Role

SME Careers (a SuperAnnotate company) is looking for a Malay Language Expert to review AI-generated Malay content and create high-quality Malay reference materials for AI training. You will evaluate language quality, reasoning, cultural appropriateness, and linguistic accuracy to improve the reliability of Malay-language AI systems.

Key Responsibilities

Develop AI Training Content

  • Create prompts and gold-standard Malay responses across general knowledge, customer support, education, and conversational writing
  • Produce high-quality reference answers demonstrating best practices in Bahasa Melayu writing

Evaluate AI Outputs

  • Review AI-generated content for accuracy, fluency, grammar, spelling, tone, cultural appropriateness, and instruction adherence
  • Compare and rank multiple AI responses based on quality and correctness

Ensure Language Quality

  • Identify meaning errors, mistranslations, register mismatches, ambiguity, and logical inconsistencies
  • Review terminology consistency for product localization, user interfaces, and technical content
  • Support regional language variations including Malaysian Malay, Brunei Malay, and diaspora usage contexts

Ensure Model Integrity

  • Detect unsafe content, misleading information, factual hallucinations, bias, and policy-risk language
  • Validate reliability across different use cases and audiences

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Linguistics, Malay Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or related field — or equivalent professional experience
  • Native or near-native Malay proficiency; Malaysian Malay focus
  • Strong professional English proficiency (minimum C1)
  • 3+ years of professional experience in writing, editing, localization, translation, content QA, journalism, or education
  • Deep understanding of Malay grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, and writing style
  • Strong attention to detail and cultural awareness

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with AI data annotation, translation QA, editorial QA, or rubric-based evaluation
  • Experience reviewing multilingual or localized content

Additional Information

  • Fully remote, flexible schedule
  • Weekly payments via the SME Careers platform
  • Access to future opportunities through the SME Careers expert network

About SME Careers

SME Careers is an AI data services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate that provides training data for leading AI companies and foundation-model laboratories.

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