Spanish (Colombia) Linguistic Expert

About the Role

Mercor is seeking professional linguistic experts fluent in Colombian Spanish to support an AI research initiative in collaboration with a leading research lab. The primary objective is to evaluate and improve large language models by enhancing their performance in Colombian Spanish. You will curate and refine high-quality linguistic data, ensuring that model outputs align with natural language patterns, cultural nuances, and linguistic accuracy, thereby advancing the capabilities of AI to better serve Colombian speakers.

Requirements

• The ideal candidate must possess native or near-native fluency in Colombian Spanish with an expert command of grammar, syntax, and stylistics.
• You should have documented professional experience in translation, editing, linguistic annotation, or natural language processing data tasks.
• A deep understanding of Colombian Spanish nuances, regional variations, and context-appropriate registers is essential for this role.
• Candidates must also demonstrate professional fluency in English and possess sharp attention to detail, capable of identifying subtle errors or unnatural phrasing.
• Additionally, experience in working with distributed remote teams is highly valued, and while not strictly required, a strong interest in AI and language technologies is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Your primary duties involve evaluating the quality and accuracy of text generated by large language models across diverse applications such as translation, summarization, dialogue, and grammar correction.
• You will be responsible for editing, refining, or rewriting content to ensure it meets the specific linguistic and cultural standards of Colombia.
• Furthermore, you will annotate Spanish text based on grammatical, syntactic, and semantic features.
• Identifying model errors and language gaps is a critical part of the role, as you will collaborate closely with AI researchers to provide detailed linguistic feedback and analysis that will guide the ongoing training and improvement of the language models.

Benefits & Perks

• You will have the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge AI research while working on high-impact projects that directly support the development of advanced artificial intelligence.
• This position provides hands-on exposure to state-of-the-art AI development within a fast-moving project environment, where your professional judgment and linguistic expertise will have a tangible and meaningful impact on the evolution of language technologies.