QA Team Lead (Odia, Oriya)

You will oversee quality across Odia AI training projects. The work includes reviewing AI-generated content and contributor submissions against detailed project guidelines, then giving clear feedback that improves accuracy and consistency.

You will also support contributor onboarding, maintain quality documentation, identify recurring issues, and help improve workflows for remote Odia-language teams.

• Review Odia AI training content, trainer work, and QA submissions.
• Check grammar, spelling, fluency, tone, cultural fit, meaning preservation, formatting, and rubric adherence.
• Give written feedback and escalate recurring or critical quality issues.
• Maintain style guides, trackers, FAQs, examples, and onboarding materials.
• Support training and quality alignment for remote contributors.
• Help improve scalable QA processes for Odia-language projects.

This is an expert-level, part-time contract role. Candidates should be able to evaluate language content closely, explain quality decisions clearly, and work with detailed rubrics.

• Pay: $30 per hour.
• Time: 20+ hours per week.
• Open to candidates in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and Thailand.
• Language: Fluent Odia with strong reading and writing ability, plus strong English communication skills.
• Experience: At least 3 years in Odia writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related work.
• Strong knowledge of Odia grammar, spelling, punctuation, tone, register, and cultural context.
• Ability to identify mistranslation, literal phrasing, unnatural tone, ambiguity, and inconsistent terminology.
• Experience supporting remote teams is strongly preferred.
• Helpful background includes a degree in Odia, linguistics, translation, communications, journalism, English, education, quality assurance, or a related field.
• Helpful tools experience includes Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, or project management systems.
• Familiarity with AI training, data annotation, large language models, prompt or response evaluation, or rubric-based LLM quality assurance is helpful.

Apply on OpenTrain with your resume, then complete the application on the hiring site. OpenTrain is a free platform where people find AI training and data-labeling projects, build a profile, and start applications.

AI training is the human work behind artificial intelligence, including reviewing model responses, rating quality, and preparing examples that help models improve. People with strong language or subject expertise are needed to judge accuracy, clarity, cultural fit, and whether outputs follow detailed guidelines.