Icelandic Language Expert - Remote

About the role

This is an hourly, remote contractor role for an Icelandic Language Specialist.

Responsibilities

• Create prompts and gold-standard Icelandic answers across multiple domains (general knowledge, customer support, education, conversational writing).
• Evaluate and rank AI outputs to improve fluency, correctness, tone match, and cultural appropriateness.
• Detect unsafe or misleading content, factual hallucinations, bias, and policy-risk language; validate reliability across use cases.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Linguistics, Icelandic/English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Native or near-native Icelandic proficiency (reading and writing required).
• Strong professional proficiency in English (minimum C1) to follow guidelines and provide detailed feedback in English.
• 3+ years of professional experience in writing, editing, localization, translation, content QA, journalism, education, or related language-focused work.
• Deep understanding of Icelandic grammar and style (cases, declensions, agreement, spelling conventions, punctuation, and register)—able to explain why something is wrong and how to fix it.
• Comfortable handling multiple registers (formal/informal), Icelandic business writing norms, and consistent terminology for product/UI localization.
• High attention to detail when spotting subtle meaning shifts, awkward literal translations, hallucinated claims, or culturally mismatched phrasing.
• Reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.
• Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, translation QA, editorial QA, or rubric-based evaluation is strongly preferred.

Qualifications

Your profile should include a Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Linguistics, Icelandic/English Literature, Communications, Journalism, Translation, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).

You must have native or near-native Icelandic proficiency (reading and writing required).

You need strong professional proficiency in English (minimum C1) to follow guidelines and provide detailed feedback in English.

You should have 3+ years of professional experience in writing, editing, localization, translation, content QA, journalism, education, or related language-focused work.

You must have a deep understanding of Icelandic grammar and style (cases, declensions, agreement, spelling conventions, punctuation, and register)—able to explain why something is wrong and how to fix it.

You should be comfortable handling multiple registers (formal/informal), Icelandic business writing norms, and consistent terminology for product/UI localization.

You need high attention to detail when spotting subtle meaning shifts, awkward literal translations, hallucinated claims, or culturally mismatched phrasing.

You must be reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.

Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, translation QA, editorial QA, or rubric-based evaluation is strongly preferred.

Skills

• Linguistics
• Icelandic/English Literature
• Communications
• Journalism
• Translation
• Content QA
• Journalism
• Education
• Writing
• Editing
• Localization
• Translation QA
• Editorial QA
• Rubric-based Evaluation

Benefits

Access to future projects available through our expert network.

Pay

Hourly rate, details TBD.

Schedule

Flexible, hourly work schedule across time zones.