Job Description & Requirements
What You Will Do
Language Research & Evaluation:
- Language research: Investigate linguistic characteristics of target languages - phonological patterns, morphology, pragmatics, regional variation, and code-switching behaviors.
- Localization analysis: Identify how language use differs across regions, registers, and cultural contexts document findings to guide model adaptation.
- Pronunciation & phonetic work: Analyse and annotate pronunciation characteristics, prosodic patterns, and phonetic variation for speech-related tasks.
- Text & audio annotation: Label data for tasks such as semantic classification, grammaticality judgements, sentiment, discourse structure, and speaker intent.
- Language model evaluation: Assess AI-generated language outputs for fluency, accuracy, cultural appropriateness, and task fit write detailed feedback to drive model improvement.
Vision Annotation & Labelling:
- Image annotation: Label objects, scenes, attributes, and spatial relationships in images.
- Video annotation: Track objects across frames, annotate actions and events, and label temporal sequences according to project-specific guidelines.
- Visual quality assurance: Review annotated image and video data for consistency and accuracy resolve ambiguities against labelling guidelines.
- Cross-modal work: Annotate data where language and vision intersect - such as image captioning evaluation, visual question answering, or OCR output review in target languages.
Across Both Streams:
- Guideline development: Collaborate with the team to refine annotation SOPs and evaluation metrics use your linguistic and domain knowledge to resolve edge cases.
- Quality & consistency: Cross-check annotated data before submission flag systematic errors and propose corrections.
Who we're looking for
Required:
- Pursuing or recently completed a degree in Linguistics, Language Studies, Translation, Communication, or a related field - with strong academic results.
- Native or near-native proficiency in one or more of our target languages: Malay, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, or English.
- Solid grounding in core linguistic concepts - phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, or pragmatics.
- Strong analytical reading and writing skills ability to produce clear, structured written assessments.
- High attention to nuance - comfortable making fine-grained distinctions in language use and visual content.
- Able to follow detailed annotation guidelines and flag ambiguities systematically.
Preferred:
- Exposure to computational linguistics, NLP, or computer vision - coursework, projects, or self-study counts.
- Experience with transcription, translation, subtitling, localization, or language teaching.
- Prior experience with image or video annotation tasks (object detection, segmentation, action labelling).
- Familiarity with annotation tools such as Label Studio, Labelbox, Prodigy, SuperAnnotate, or similar platforms.
- Interest in phonetics, sociolinguistics, or cross-cultural communication.
- Multilingual ability - particularly in dialects or regional varieties of target languages.
- Available for a long-term, full-time, on-site internship.
