Catalan Language Expert

Pay: up to $26/hour

About SME Careers

As AI systems become more sophisticated, they rely on human knowledge to better understand context and the world. At SME Careers, we partner with leading AI labs to improve how the next generation of intelligent systems learn, reason, and communicate. SME Careers is a fast-growing AI data services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate that provides AI training data to many of the world's top AI companies and foundation model labs. Your expertise as an Catalan Language Expert will directly help improve the world's premier AI models. Your expertise will play an important role in shaping the future of AI.

About the Role

As a Catalan Language Expert, you will review AI-generated responses and content in Catalan and English, evaluate reasoning quality and step-by-step problem-solving, and provide expert feedback that helps models produce accurate, logical, and clearly explained answers. You will assess solutions for accuracy, clarity, and adherence to the prompt; identify errors in methodology or conceptual understanding; fact-check information; write high-quality explanations and model solutions; and rate and compare multiple AI responses. This is a remote, hourly-paid contract role with flexible scheduling. SME Careers is a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate that provides AI training data for many of the world's largest AI companies and foundation model labs. Your work in this role directly helps improve the world's premier AI models.

What You'll Do

- Develop AI Training Content: Create detailed prompts in various topics and responses to guide AI learning, ensuring the models reflect a comprehensive understanding of diverse subjects.

- Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI responses to enhance the model's accuracy, fluency, and contextual relevance.

- Ensure Model Integrity: Test AI models for potential inaccuracies or biases, validating their reliability across use cases.

- Document review decisions and escalation notes in clear, professional English (C1+) so others can reproduce your judgments.

- Perform linguistic quality assurance on Catalan text (grammar, orthography, punctuation, register) using a consistent error taxonomy and rubric-based scoring.

- Fact-check Catalan-language responses against reliable references and flag unverifiable, misleading, or internally inconsistent claims.

- Enforce Catalan locale, register, and style-guide consistency (e.g., Central vs Valencian conventions, formal vs informal address) within each task or project guideline.

What You Bring

- 1–5 years of relevant professional experience in Catalan language work (editing, translation, localization, linguistic QA, content review, or similar).

- Native or near-native written Catalan (C2) with strong command of normative grammar, orthography, punctuation, and register.

- Minimum Bachelor's degree

- English proficiency: Minimum C1 level.

- Fact-checking capability: ability to verify claims using reputable sources, resolve ambiguities, and document evidence succinctly.

- Linguistic quality assurance experience: applying rubrics/rating scales, consistency checks, and structured error categorization for language quality.

- Previous experience with AI data training, annotation, or evaluating AI-generated content is strongly preferred.

- Able to work independently as a remote contractor: detail-oriented, self-directed, dependable turnaround, and careful handling of confidential project content.

Application & Onboarding Process

1. Apply with your resume/CV highlighting Catalan language work (editing, translation, QA, localization, or content review).

2. Complete a Catalan language screening focused on grammar, usage, and quality judgment.

3. Complete a short fact-checking and linguistic QA exercise to calibrate how you apply guidelines.

4. Sign a contractor agreement and complete identity/payment setup.

5. Attend paid onboarding for project-specific rubrics and begin hourly tasks based on availability.

Job Details

- Company: SME Careers (subsidiary of SuperAnnotate)

- Role: Catalan Language Expert (Mid)

- Employment type: Contract (hourly)

- Location: Remote (Spain)

- Schedule: Flexible hours; task availability varies by project

- Compensation: $22.23–$31.12 USD/hour (based on skills, performance, and task complexity)

Why Join Us

- Flexible, remote contract work that fits around other commitments.

- Work focused on Catalan language accuracy, clarity, and factual reliability.

- Clear rubrics and structured feedback that make quality expectations explicit.

- Exposure to a steady stream of real-world Catalan language edge cases (terminology, register, dialect choices, and fact-checking).

Responsibilities

• Develop AI Training Content: Create detailed prompts in various topics and responses to guide AI learning, ensuring the models reflect a comprehensive understanding of diverse subjects.
• Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI responses to enhance the model's accuracy, fluency, and contextual relevance.
• Ensure Model Integrity: Test AI models for potential inaccuracies or biases, validating their reliability across use cases.
• Document review decisions and escalation notes in clear, professional English (C1+) so others can reproduce your judgments.
• Perform linguistic quality assurance on Catalan text (grammar, orthography, punctuation, register) using a consistent error taxonomy and rubric-based scoring.
• Fact-check Catalan-language responses against reliable references and flag unverifiable, misleading, or internally inconsistent claims.
• Enforce Catalan locale, register, and style-guide consistency (e.g., Central vs Valencian conventions, formal vs informal address) within each task or project guideline.

Requirements

• 1–5 years of relevant professional experience in Catalan language work (editing, translation, localization, linguistic QA, content review, or similar).
• Native or near-native written Catalan (C2) with strong command of normative grammar, orthography, punctuation, and register.
• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting, Catalan Philology, Journalism, or equivalent practical experience.
• English proficiency: Minimum C1 level.
• Fact-checking capability: ability to verify claims using reputable sources, resolve ambiguities, and document evidence succinctly.
• Linguistic quality assurance experience: applying rubrics/rating scales, consistency checks, and structured error categorization for language quality.
• Previous experience with AI data training, annotation, or evaluating AI-generated content is strongly preferred.
• Able to work independently as a remote contractor: detail-oriented, self-directed, dependable turnaround, and careful handling of confidential project content.

Skills: Catalan, Linguistic Quality Assurance, Fact-checking, English

Open to candidates in: Spain