Malay Language Expert

Pay: up to $20/hour

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Malay (Bahasa Melayu) Language Specialist (SME) to review AI-generated Malay content and/or create high-quality Malay reference content, evaluating language quality and step-by-step reasoning while providing precise written feedback. You will assess outputs for accuracy, fluency, grammar, spelling, tone, cultural appropriateness, and adherence to the prompt; identify errors in meaning, mistranslation, register (formal vs informal), ambiguity, and logical consistency;

fact-check claims when needed; write high-quality rewrites and model answers that demonstrate best practices in Malay writing; and rate and compare multiple AI responses based on correctness and overall quality.

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 Malay expertise directly helps improve the world's premier AI models by making their Malay language output more natural, reliable, culturally accurate, and clearly written.

Important:
There is no immediate project for this role; however, if qualified, you will be among the first experts we reach out to when relevant opportunities arise. This will also provide you with access to future projects available through our expert network.

• Develop AI Training Content:
  Create prompts and gold-standard Malay answers across multiple domains (general knowledge, customer support, education, conversational writing).
• Optimize AI Performance:
  Evaluate and rank AI outputs to improve fluency, correctness, tone match, and cultural appropriateness.
• Ensure Model Integrity:
  Detect unsafe or misleading content, factual hallucinations, bias, and policy-risk language; validate reliability across use cases.

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Linguistics, Malay/English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Native or near-native Malay proficiency (reading and writing required).
• Strong professional proficiency in English (minimum C1) to follow guidelines and provide detailed feedback in English.
• 3+ years of professional experience in writing, editing, localization, translation, content QA, journalism, education, or related language-focused work.
• Deep understanding of Malay grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, and style-able to explain why something is wrong and how to fix it.
• Comfortable handling regional variation and audience requirements:
  Malaysia vs Indonesia (Indonesian differs), Brunei, and diaspora usage, including formality levels.
• High attention to detail when spotting subtle meaning shifts, awkward literal translations, hallucinated claims, or culturally mismatched phrasing.
• Reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.
• Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, translation QA, editorial QA, or rubric-based evaluation is strongly preferred.

Skills: English, Translation Quality Review, proofreading, Tone & Register, Localization, Copyediting, Malay (Bahasa Melayu), Grammar & Style, cultural context, Fact-checking

Open to candidates in: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, The Philippines, Timor Leste

Interview language: English