Russian Quality Assurance Lead (Remote, Part-Time)

About OpenTrain

OpenTrain is the centralized platform where people build careers teaching AI through data-labeling and annotation work. We help contributors discover projects, track their work, and grow a durable freelance career focused on AI training.

OpenTrain AI is the hiring and contracting organization for this role. You will join a distributed team shaping how language models learn and behave.

About AI training and data-labeling work

AI training (also called data labeling or annotation) is the human side of building AI: people prepare, review, and correct examples that models learn from. This work is often 100% remote, flexible, and accessible to contributors with language skills or domain knowledge.

As a Russian QA lead you will be on the front line of quality control that directly impacts model behavior and user experience.

• Remote, flexible work that fits alongside other commitments
• Accessible entry points—many projects need language skills and attention to detail
• Work that directly shapes state-of-the-art AI systems

Role overview

As the Russian Quality Assurance Lead you will review Russian AI-generated text and trainer or QA submissions, verify adherence to project guidelines and rubrics, provide precise written feedback, and maintain Russian-language project documentation. This role focuses on accuracy, fluency, grammar, tone, cultural appropriateness, meaning preservation, formatting, and instruction-following.

• Position type: Contractor, Part-time
• Time requirement: 20+ hours per week
• Pay: USD $30.00 per hour

What you'll do

You will lead quality-control workflows for Russian-language projects, keep contributors aligned with standards, and help scale QA processes through documentation and training.

• Review Russian AI-generated content and trainer/QA work for quality and consistency
• Evaluate submissions against project guidelines, rubrics, and expected standards
• Provide clear, written feedback and escalate recurring or critical issues
• Maintain Russian project documentation: style guides, trackers, FAQs, examples, and onboarding materials
• Support onboarding, training, and ongoing quality alignment for remote contributors
• Communicate updates and workflow changes clearly to trainers and QAs
• Identify process improvements to make Russian-language QA more scalable

Requirements

Candidates must meet the language, experience, and remote-work requirements listed below. This role requires strong written judgment in Russian and the ability to communicate feedback in English.

• Native or near-native Russian reading and writing ability
• Strong English communication skills for following guidelines and writing feedback
• Experience in Russian writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, annotation, or AI training
• Strong understanding of Russian grammar, spelling, punctuation, tone, register, and cultural context
• Ability to evaluate language quality, detect awkward or unnatural phrasing, and preserve meaning accurately
• Comfort working remotely using tools such as Discord, Google Docs, and Google Sheets
• Experience leading or supporting remote trainers, annotators, reviewers, editors, or QAs is strongly preferred

Who should apply

This role is a fit for experienced Russian-language editors, localization reviewers, translators, or annotation leads who want hands-on QA work and to help improve remote workflows. You should enjoy giving constructive written feedback and maintaining clear documentation.

• Intermediate experience level (project-level QA and reviewer experience expected)
• Comfortable with rubric-based evaluation and text-generation review
• Able to commit to 20+ hours per week as a contractor

How it works, pay, and location

You will be contracted by OpenTrain AI as a part-time contractor. This is text-focused work (labeling types: evaluation ratings and text-generation review). Pay is USD $30/hour. Candidates must be located in one of the approved countries listed below and able to work remotely.

Labeling tools and exact workflows will be provided; typical collaboration tools include Discord, Google Docs, and Google Sheets.

• Contract type: Contractor (part-time)
• Work type: Text; label types: EVALUATION_RATING, TEXT_GENERATION
• Rate: $30.00 USD per hour
• Minimum weekly commitment: 20+ hours
• Eligible locations: Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
• Languages required: Russian (ru) and English (en)