Catalan Language Expert
SME Careers β’ Remote
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hourly
Pay Rate
$26/task
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14d ago
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About this Role
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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
- 1β5 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
- Apply with your resume/CV highlighting Catalan language work (editing, translation, QA, localization, or content review).
- Complete a Catalan language screening focused on grammar, usage, and quality judgment.
- Complete a short fact-checking and linguistic QA exercise to calibrate how you apply guidelines.
- Sign a contractor agreement and complete identity/payment setup.
- 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: $22.23β$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).
Key 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.
Your profile
- 1β5 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.
π Geographic Availability This role is available to qualified experts globally. However, as a U.S.-based company, SME Careers complies with U.S. export control and sanctions regulations. Eligibility depends on your country of residence and any applicable trade restrictions. Some projects may have additional language or region-specific requirements.
π° Pay Rate May Vary Based on Your Location Your actual compensation will be determined based on your location and local market conditions. See regional job listings for localized pay information, or the application process will clarify your specific rate.
If you're unsure whether you're eligible, proceed with the applicationβSME's screening will determine your jurisdiction status and applicable compensation.
Requirements
- Fact-Checking
- Catalan
- English
- Linguistic Quality Assurance
Why This Role
SME Careers treats Languages expertise as a career asset, not a one-off gig. As a Catalan Language Expert, consistent high-quality work moves you up a real ladder: Data Trainer, then Quality Analyst, then Project Manager. Payments run weekly through Deel, and the schedule is entirely yours to set.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does SME Careers offer a path for advancement?
Yes. SME Careers is unusual among AI training platforms for this: it publishes an explicit career ladder, Data Trainer, then Quality Analyst, then QA Lead, then Project Manager. Consistent, high-quality work is what moves you up it.
How does SME Careers pay freelancers?
Weekly, through Deel. Deel also handles tax compliance, which is how SME Careers pays contractors across more than 40 countries without running its own international payroll.
Is SME Careers work ongoing or project-based?
Project-based. Assignment duration and availability vary by project, but consistently high-quality work earns priority access to whatever comes next.
What does task-based AI training work actually look like?
Practical, hands-on data work: recording short videos, categorizing images, rating text responses, or analyzing data. Tasks are designed to be short and distinct, typically 5 to 60 minutes each.
What does asynchronous AI training work mean in practice?
No set hours, no check-ins, no meetings. You log in when you want, pick up an available task, complete it, and submit; nobody is waiting on you in real time. That's different from remote employment, where you're expected online during business hours. The tradeoff: you're competing with others for available tasks, so an empty queue means there's simply nothing to do until more work is released.
Do task-based AI training roles require an interview?
Check the Job Facts panel above for this specific listing. Where no fact is confirmed yet: most of these roles skip a live interview and gate access through an automated assessment or qualification task instead, though some do add an interview step, so don't assume either way until you check the application flow.
What does Languages work look like for a Catalan Language Expert?
Tasks here are scoped to Languages, not generic labeling. As a Catalan Language Expert, expect to draw on real domain judgment (evaluating outputs, correcting errors, or providing expert reasoning specific to Languages) rather than following a one-size-fits-all rubric. If you don't have hands-on Languages background, this is likely not the right listing to start with.
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Who is behind SME Careers?
SME Careers is the expert talent division of SuperAnnotate, an AI data infrastructure platform, connecting domain experts with high-level AI training projects.