Telugu Linguistic QA Specialist

What You'll Do9

• Spot-check Telugu items on live projects and flag problems in accuracy, fluency, grammar, tone, or formatting.
• Send written feedback to trainers and QAs through direct messages, with concrete examples that show what to change.
• Escalate critical or repeated issues to project leads before they spread across a batch.
• Post guideline changes, workflow updates, and quality reminders to project channels on Discord.
• Answer questions about Telugu wording, register, translation fidelity, Andhra Pradesh versus Telangana usage, and tricky edge cases.
• Message inactive contributors, track who responds, and flag availability gaps to the team.
• Build and maintain style guides, trackers, FAQs, honeypots, and onboarding materials for Telugu projects.
• Run onboarding and training calls that walk trainers and QAs through rubrics, workflows, and Telugu-specific style rules.
• Study recurring quality gaps and propose workflow changes that keep the QA process scalable.

Requirements8

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Telugu, linguistics, translation, communications, journalism, English, education, quality assurance, or a related field.
• Native or near-native Telugu with strong reading and writing skills.
• Solid English skills for reading guidelines, writing feedback, and working with distributed teams.
• 3+ years of professional work in Telugu writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or similar review workflows.
• Deep knowledge of Telugu grammar, spelling, punctuation, register, regional variation, and cultural context.
• Ability to judge content against detailed rubrics and name the exact flaw: mistranslation, literal phrasing, awkward tone, invented claims, ambiguity, or inconsistent terminology.
• Comfort with Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, and project management tools in a remote setting.
• Strong organization and attention to detail, with the discipline to keep style guides, FAQs, trackers, and onboarding docs current.

Preferred Qualifications2

• Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, editors, or QAs.
• Background in AI training, data annotation, large language models, prompt and response evaluation, or rubric-based LLM QA.

Who Should Apply

Telugu language specialists with three or more years of editing, translation, localization, or annotation work and a sharp eye for rubric detail fit this contract well. The role suits someone who enjoys coaching remote contributors and turning fuzzy quality problems into clear written guidance.

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