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Urdu Language Expert

SME Careers

Localization AI Specialist Contractor Ongoing
Pakistan Up to $15/hr June 20, 2026

Job description

Role Overview

As an Urdu Language Specialist (SME), you will review AI-generated Urdu content and create high-quality reference content used to train and evaluate advanced AI systems.

You will evaluate language quality, reasoning, fluency, grammar, tone, cultural appropriateness, and instruction adherence while providing detailed written feedback and high-quality rewrites.

This role combines language expertise, content creation, translation review, localization, fact-checking, and AI evaluation responsibilities.

Your work will directly contribute to improving AI systems by making Urdu outputs more natural, accurate, culturally appropriate, and reliable.

Key Responsibilities

AI Content Evaluation

  • Review AI-generated Urdu content

  • Evaluate:

    • Accuracy
    • Fluency
    • Grammar
    • Spelling
    • Tone
    • Cultural appropriateness
    • Instruction following
    • Meaning preservation
  • Compare and rank multiple AI responses based on quality and correctness

AI Training Content Creation

  • Create:
    • Prompts
    • Reference answers
    • Gold-standard responses

Across domains such as:

  • General knowledge
  • Customer support
  • Education
  • Conversational writing
  • Translation
  • Localization
  • Culture-sensitive content

Translation & Localization Review

  • Identify:

    • Mistranslations
    • Literal translations
    • Ambiguous wording
    • Meaning shifts
    • Cultural mismatches
    • Terminology issues
  • Improve translation quality and localization accuracy

Fact-Checking & Quality Assurance

  • Verify factual claims when required
  • Detect:
    • Hallucinations
    • Unsafe content
    • Bias
    • Policy risks
    • Misleading information

Language Quality Improvement

  • Write high-quality rewrites and model answers
  • Improve:
    • Readability
    • Naturalness
    • Tone consistency
    • Register appropriateness
    • Script formatting

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in:
    • Linguistics
    • Urdu Literature
    • English Literature
    • Communications
    • Journalism
    • Translation
    • Related fields

OR equivalent professional experience.

  • Native or near-native Urdu proficiency
  • Strong written and reading skills in Urdu
  • Professional English proficiency (minimum C1)
  • Minimum 3 years of experience in:
    • Writing
    • Editing
    • Localization
    • Translation
    • Content QA
    • Journalism
    • Education
    • Language-focused work

Urdu Language Expertise

Strong understanding of:

  • Urdu grammar
  • Spelling conventions
  • Punctuation
  • Nastaliq script
  • Right-to-left (RTL) formatting
  • Tone and style
  • Formal and informal registers

Regional & Register Expertise

Comfortable working with:

  • Pakistan Urdu
  • India Urdu
  • Formal/Literary Urdu
  • Conversational Urdu
  • Urdu-English code-switching

Evaluation Skills

Ability to identify:

  • Incorrect grammar
  • Gender agreement issues
  • Verb agreement issues
  • Literal translations
  • Hallucinations
  • Cultural mismatches
  • Unnatural Persianized or Arabicized wording
  • Meaning inconsistencies

Preferred Experience

Experience with:

  • AI data training
  • Data annotation
  • Translation QA
  • Editorial QA
  • Localization QA
  • Rubric-based evaluations
  • LLM evaluation workflows

Skills & Technologies

  • Urdu
  • English
  • Translation Quality Review
  • Localization
  • Fact-Checking
  • Proofreading
  • Copyediting
  • Grammar & Style
  • Tone & Register
  • Cultural Context

Selection Process

  1. AI Interview

Important Note

There may not be an immediate project assignment. Qualified candidates will join the expert network and may be contacted for future opportunities.

Why Work with SME Careers?

Shape the Future of AI

Your work directly impacts how AI systems learn and communicate.

Flexible Work

Choose your own schedule and work remotely.

Weekly Payments

Receive payments once approved work is completed.

Community Rewards

Earn referral bonuses through the SME Careers referral program.

About SME Careers

SME Careers is an AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate.

The company supports many of the world's largest AI organizations by providing high-quality training data and expert evaluation services for frontier AI systems.

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