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German Language Specialist – Freelance AI Trainer

About the role

• Challenge advanced language models on German language topics
• Document model failure modes to improve reasoning
• Converse with models on language scenarios
• Verify factual accuracy and logical soundness
• Capture reproducible error traces
• Suggest improvements to prompt engineering and evaluation metrics
• Help create high-quality training data for AI language models

• German language expertise, including grammar, syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics
• Ability to analyze verb conjugation, the German case system, word order, declensions, gender, and stylistic variation
• Ability to converse with advanced language models on language scenarios
• Ability to verify factual accuracy and logical soundness
• Ability to capture reproducible error traces
• Ability to suggest improvements to prompt engineering and evaluation metrics
• Clear, metacognitive communication and ability to “show your work”
• A master’s or PhD in German language, linguistics, or a closely related field is ideal
• Peer-reviewed publications, teaching experience, or hands-on linguistic analysis projects signal fit

• No company-sponsored health insurance or PTO; these benefits do not apply to contractors
• Contractor supplies a secure computer
• Contractor supplies high-speed internet