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Portuguese Quality Assurance Lead (QAL)

SME Careers

Quality & Evaluation Contractor Ongoing
Brazil, Portugal Up to $35/hr June 20, 2026

Job description

Role Overview

As a Portuguese Quality Assurance Lead (QAL), you will oversee quality, consistency, and contributor performance across Portuguese AI training projects.

You will review AI-generated Portuguese content as well as trainer and QA work, evaluate outputs against project guidelines, provide detailed written feedback, and ensure adherence to quality standards.

This role combines language expertise, quality management, contributor support, documentation, and process improvement responsibilities within large-scale AI training programs.

Your work will directly contribute to improving some of the world's leading AI models by ensuring Portuguese training data is natural, accurate, culturally appropriate, well-documented, and aligned with client expectations.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Monitoring

  • Review and spot-check Portuguese training items
  • Identify quality issues and recurring patterns
  • Provide feedback to contributors
  • Escalate critical quality concerns when necessary

Trainer & QA Communication

  • Communicate updates regarding:

    • Guidelines
    • Workflow changes
    • Project requirements
    • Quality expectations
  • Support contributors through Discord and other communication channels

Question Handling

  • Answer questions related to:
    • Portuguese grammar
    • Translation quality
    • Tone and register
    • Regional language usage
    • Localization requirements
    • Cultural appropriateness
    • Terminology consistency

Contributor Activation

  • Contact inactive contributors
  • Encourage project participation
  • Track follow-ups and contributor availability

Documentation

  • Create and maintain:
    • Style guides
    • FAQs
    • Quality trackers
    • Onboarding materials
    • Quality notes
    • Example libraries
    • Honeypots

Onboarding & Training

  • Conduct onboarding sessions
  • Explain:
    • Project workflows
    • Rubrics
    • Quality expectations
    • Portuguese language standards

Quality Alignment

  • Ensure consistent application of Portuguese language guidelines
  • Communicate project updates and evolving standards

Process Improvement

  • Identify recurring quality issues
  • Recommend workflow improvements
  • Help build scalable Portuguese QA processes

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in:

    • Portuguese
    • Linguistics
    • Translation
    • Communications
    • Journalism
    • English
    • Education
    • Quality Assurance
    • Related fields
  • Native or near-native Portuguese proficiency

  • Strong written and spoken English skills

  • Minimum 3 years of experience in:

    • Portuguese writing
    • Editing
    • Translation
    • Localization
    • Content QA
    • AI training
    • Annotation
    • Language review workflows

Language Expertise

Strong understanding of:

  • Portuguese grammar
  • Spelling conventions
  • Punctuation
  • Tone and register
  • Regional language variation
  • Cultural context
  • Localization standards

Evaluation Skills

Ability to identify:

  • Mistranslations
  • Literal phrasing
  • Unnatural wording
  • European Portuguese mismatches
  • Hallucinations
  • Ambiguity
  • Terminology inconsistencies

Preferred Experience

  • Managing trainers, reviewers, editors, annotators, or QA teams
  • AI training and annotation projects
  • Prompt and response evaluation
  • Rubric-based LLM evaluation

Skills & Technologies

  • Portuguese Quality Assurance
  • Localization QA
  • Translation Quality Review
  • LLM Evaluation
  • AI Training
  • Style Guide Development
  • Documentation
  • English Communication

Selection Process

  1. AI Interview
  2. Domain-specific task
  3. Recruiter 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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