Language Lead - Hindi (Contract)
About Cartesia
Overview
About the Engagement
You will coordinate with the Human Evals Manager on project deliverables and timelines. Some examples of what your day-to-day work may include:
- Answer questions from annotators about guidelines, edge cases, or language-specific issues via an agreed project communication channel.
- Cascade new feedback, instructions, or rubric updates to annotators working on your projects.
- Listen to annotator-rated audio files and check whether their ratings and written feedback align with the rubric.
- Prepare written quality assessments for annotators with specific examples and recommendations.
- Listen to TTS output and provide ground truth assessments of pronunciation, prosody, and naturalness in your language.
- Update or expand sections of the annotation guidelines when you find gaps or edge cases.
- Prep and run calibration meetings with annotators.
- Hold office hours on a mutually agreed schedule during active studies so annotators can ask questions in real time.
- Develop onboarding materials and resources for new annotators.
- Write QA reports on annotation quality and calibration outcomes.
- Review production audio in your language and flag quality issues to the team.
- Investigate language-specific issues reported by customers and identify root causes.
- Audit datasets for linguistic accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
Commitment
Requirements
- Native-level proficiency in Hindi as spoken in Hindi.
- Experience with data annotation, transcription, or language quality assurance.
- Strong foundation in linguistics or a related field, with the ability to apply concepts like phonetics, prosody, and intonation when evaluating speech and writing annotation guidelines.
- Strong written English proficiency. All guidelines, feedback, reports, and team communication are in English.
- Ability to write clear, structured instructions and deliver specific, actionable feedback to annotators.
- Comfortable working with data and metrics such as inter-rater agreement scores, audit spreadsheets, and structured feedback templates.
- Self-directed and able to manage feedback cycles, QA reviews, and data projects without close oversight.
Preferred
- Experience writing or maintaining annotation guidelines or rubrics.
- Experience training, mentoring, or managing other annotators.
- Experience with audio evaluation, TTS, or STT.
- Conversational spoken English proficiency for meetings and calibration syncs.
- Experience working with distributed, remote teams.
This is a 1099 contract opportunity and will not be eligible for the benefits below. Language Leads work on an ongoing basis, renewable by mutual agreement. You will control your own methods for completing assigned work, supply your own equipment, and are responsible for your own taxes. You must be authorized to work in your country of residence.
Note: Cartesia participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with Form I-9 information to confirm employment eligibility after hire.
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Health Insurance
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401(k)
Commuter Allowance
Flexible PTO
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Our Commitment to Equal Opportunity
Cartesia is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Compensation: $25 – $35 per hour
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