Linguist, Transcriber – Chichewa/Nyanja

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🇲🇼 Malawi – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

✨ Linguist

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LILT AI

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $25M Funding Round - LILT on 2025-06

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Enterprise

LILT AI is a multilingual AI platform that helps enterprises and public-sector organizations create, translate, verify, and manage content across languages at scale. It combines domain-specific AI models, continuous model training, and a human intelligence layer of professional linguists to deliver secure, brand-consistent localization, translation verification, and multilingual model development. The platform offers enterprise project management, 100+ native integrations, on-prem and air-gapped deployments, and tools to train, evaluate, and govern multilingual AI for use cases like website localization, product launches, technical documentation, and regulatory/compliance communications.

📋 Description

• Produce verbatim transcripts from audio, including noises and cross talk • Follow annotation guidelines while maintaining high fidelity to spoken content • Translate transcribed content from the native language into natural, fluent English • Preserve meaning, tone, and cultural nuance • Review and correct transcripts or translations for accuracy and completeness • Provide structured feedback on linguistic issues • Potentially perform transcription and translation together from audio through English translation • Complete onboarding and payment setup after selection and testing

🎯 Requirements

• Native-level proficiency in Chichewa/Nyanja target language(s) • Graduate qualification in translation, linguistics, or language studies, OR a graduate qualification in another field plus 2 years of full-time professional translation experience, OR 5 years of full-time professional translation experience • Prior experience with spoken language transcription is a strong advantage • Reliable availability and commitment • Most tasks require a minimum of 2 hours per day or 10 hours per week • CV must be submitted in English • Ability to complete a project-specific test if required • Contractors cannot be engaged in regions subject to international embargoes or sanctions • Contractors are responsible for their own tax obligations

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible schedule with no fixed hours, check-ins, or micromanaging • Competitive rates • Prompt payments • Access to diverse, innovative projects • Professional portfolio and skill development opportunities • Global community of linguists and language professionals • No benefits such as health insurance, paid time off, or retirement contributions are provided • Work availability may provide supplemental income