We are seeking a skilled Linguistics PhD Student or Doctoral Researcher specializing in Romance languages to work as a project consultant in our AI Labor Marketplace. This is not a full-time employment position — you will be engaged as an expert project consultant on a contract basis.

Location: U.S.-based experts only

Engagement: Part-time, project-based expert evaluation work

Work Type: Remote

This project engages linguistics PhD students to evaluate AI-generated text in Central, Eastern, and Northern European languages. Contributors will analyze grammatical correctness, translation quality, and linguistic naturalness across model outputs.

Languages needed include: Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Greek, and Welsh.

Serbian evaluations may include both Cyrillic and Latin scripts.

This is a project-based consultant role. Consultants will be paid on a per-project basis; hourly rates are estimates based on anticipated completion time. Consultants control their own schedule, provide their own tools, and may simultaneously provide services to other vendors/employers (subject to those vendors’ allowances).

Responsibilities

Contributors will:

• Evaluate AI-generated text in Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Greek, or Welsh
• Assess grammatical correctness and linguistic naturalness
• Compare model responses and identify the best translation or phrasing
• Identify syntactic or semantic errors
• Provide short written linguistic explanations

Expected Outcomes

• Completed evaluation tasks with structured linguistic ratings
• Expert judgments about grammatical correctness and meaning
• Concise written explanations supporting evaluation decisions

Qualifications

• Current PhD student in Linguistics at a U.S. university
• Native, heritage, or advanced academic proficiency in Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Greek, or Welsh
• Academic training in linguistic analysis
• Experience performing grammaticality judgments