Team lead; manual) Russian AI training

This role is with SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of Super Annotate, delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs. Your Russian quality leadership will directly help improve the world’s premier AI models by ensuring that Russian training data is natural, accurate, culturally appropriate, well-documented, and aligned with client expectations.

Quality monitoring:
Spot-check Russian items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and elevate recurring or critical issues. Trainer and QA communication:
Update trainers and QAs on Discord about new item guidelines, project changes, workflow updates, and quality expectations. Question handling:
Respond to trainer/QA questions clearly and promptly, especially around Russian wording, grammar, register, translation fidelity, cultural context, terminology, and edge cases. Trainer/QA activation management: DM contributors who are inactive or not working, encourage activation, track follow-ups, and flag availability issues when needed. Documentation:
Create and maintain Russian project documentation, including style guides, trackers, FAQs, quality notes, examples, honeypots, and onboarding materials. Onboarding and training:
Schedule and run onboarding/training calls with trainers and QAs to explain project expectations, workflows, rubrics, quality standards, and Russian-specific style requirements. Quality alignment:
Ensure all trainers and QAs apply Russian language guidelines consistently and understand updates as projects evolve. Process improvement:
Identify recurring quality gaps, propose workflow improvements, and help build scalable QA processes for Russian-language projects.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Russian, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant domain/related field. Native or near‑native Russian proficiency with strong reading and writing skills. Strong grasp of the English language to follow project guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear feedback in English. 3+ years of professional experience in Russian writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language‑review workflows.

Strong understanding of Russian grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, declension, aspect, gender agreement, tone, register, and cultural context. Comfortable handling formal, neutral, and conversational Russian, including audience adaptation and terminology consistency across domains. Ability to evaluate Russian content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as mistranslation, literal phrasing, unnatural tone, incorrect case usage, hallucinated claims, ambiguity, or inconsistent terminology. Highly detail‑oriented and organized, with the ability to maintain style guides, FAQs, trackers, onboarding materials, honeypots, and other quality documentation.

Будет плюсом:
Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, editors, or QAs is strongly preferred;
Experience with AI training, data annotation, large language models, prompt/response evaluation, or rubric‑based LLM QA is a strong plus

In this hourly, remote contractor role