
AI Benchmark Engineer, Native Language Specialist – Arabic
Posted 2 days ago

Posted 2 days ago
This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Arab Emirates (UAE).
• Design, construct, and validate Terminal-Bench tasks for multilingual software challenges.
• Assess coding agents.
• Create realistic task environments utilizing datasets and files in Arabic, ensuring assets are in the target language.
• Identify AI failure points through prompting and translation efforts in Arabic.
• Develop strong reference implementations.
• Write dependable, deterministic verifier scripts.
• Analyze execution logs and adjust task difficulty from Easy to Very Hard.
• Execute standard Terminal-Bench configurations against Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus model tiers.
• Engage in a four-layer human quality control process: creation, human review, calibration review, and audit.
• Collaborate with automated LLM-based checks to ensure fairness, grammatical accuracy, and benchmark integrity.
• Provide support for multilingual AI and human-verified language services for enterprises, governments, and AI developers.
• Over 5 years of industry experience in software engineering.
• Demonstrated success at leading technology firms and/or graduation from prestigious engineering universities.
• Native or near-native proficiency in Arabic with a thorough understanding of grammar, register, and phrasing rules.
• High proficiency in English.
• Strong skills in Python, standard shell scripting, and data processing.
• Extensive experience with Terminal/CLI-based development workflows.
• Familiarity with coding agents.
• Deep technical knowledge of multilingual text-processing challenges.
• Experience with encoding/decoding robustness and Unicode normalization.
• Understanding of locale-dependent conventions, including collation, casing, and non-Gregorian dates.
• Experience with text I/O, toolchain interoperability, and safe string operations.
• For Arabic: expertise in bidirectional/RTL handling, font fallbacks, and rendering/typography in UI or artifacts.
• Reliable availability and commitment to timely delivery.
• Most tasks require availability of at least 2 hours per day or 15–20 hours per week.
• Ability to provide an updated CV in English.
• Must complete a GenAI assessment.
• Contractors must not operate in regions subject to international embargoes or sanctions.
• Responsible for personal tax obligations.
• Flexible schedule; work when it suits you, as much or as little as you prefer.
• No fixed hours, check-ins, or micromanagement.
• Competitive compensation rates.
• Timely payments.
• Access to a variety of innovative projects.
• Opportunities for portfolio enhancement and professional skill development across different industries and domains.
• Global network of linguists, subject matter experts, and language professionals.
• Work remotely from any location, at any time you desire.
• No health insurance, paid time off, or retirement benefits are provided.
• Hours are not guaranteed.
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