Cultural and Linguistic Specialist

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience : 5 years

Location : Remote (India), India

JobType : full-time

We are seeking cultural and linguistic specialists to ensure AI systems reflect authentic, nuanced, and respectful representations of local cultures. This role blends deep cultural expertise with strong analytical skills to design, evaluate, and refine datasets that go beyond surface-level language use, capturing the richness of real-world communication.

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Key Responsibilities

• Training Data Creation : Develop and review culturally authentic content, including everyday dialogues, idioms, proverbs, and Q&A pairs that reflect real-life contexts.
• Evaluation Design : Create prompts to test AI performance on humor, taboos, sensitive topics, and cultural nuances, ensuring outputs align with local norms and values.
• AI Output Benchmarking : Evaluate model responses for tone, accuracy, cultural appropriateness, and hidden biases, providing insights only a cultural insider can offer.
• Framework & Guidelines : Define standards for “cultural awareness” by building structured evaluation frameworks and data generation guidelines.
• Dataset Review & Enrichment : Review and expand datasets to capture a full range of cultural expressions, linking examples to cultural theories such as collectivism vs. individualism or high- vs. low-context communication.
• Bias Analysis : Detect potential structural or linguistic biases and recommend strategies to mitigate them during model training.

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What We’re Looking For

An expert who combines academic rigor with cultural intuition—ensuring AI systems reflect not just language fluency, but also the underlying values, sensitivities, and meanings that shape authentic human communication.