Brazilian Subject Matter Expert in Law and Ethics (PhD level)
Welo Global
If you have a PhD in law or ethics and native-level Portuguese fluency, this remote role lets you apply your specialized knowledge to shape how AI systems understand legal and ethical nuance across cultures. You'll work with a major social media company to build training datasets that train machine learning models—meaningful work that sits at the intersection of language, technology, and global business.
You'll evaluate, annotate, and help curate high-quality legal and ethical content in Brazilian Portuguese for AI training. Your job is to ensure the data reflects real-world complexity and regional context. This is technical work, but it doesn't require coding—it requires judgment, domain expertise, and attention to detail.
This role fits you if you hold a PhD in law, ethics, philosophy, or a closely related field, speak Brazilian Portuguese natively, and want hands-on experience in AI and data annotation. A portfolio showing your written work or research strengthens your application.
To apply, visit CareerJumpShip and submit your CV, a brief note on why this work interests you, and links to any relevant writing or research. Welocalize reviews applications on a rolling basis.
About this role
As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. ROLE OVERVIEW Welocalize is partnering with a social media client to build high-quality training data for AI systems. We are looking for Brazilian experts with experts with PhD level to help create challenging, expert-level questions and answers in their field. The content that will directly shape how AI understands Brazilian culture, law, history, and society. This is a remote, flexible freelance engagement. All work is done in Brazilian Portuguese. Responsibilities What you'll do For each assignment, you will craft a challenging, expert-level question on a Brazilian topic in your field (one that AI tools cannot fully answer), write the ideal response in Brazilian Portuguese and break that response down into individually cited facts with their sources and relevance. Important: AI tools may be used for research support only. All questions, answers, and fact breakdowns must be your own original work. We are looking for experts in the domain listed in the job posting. As a mandatory requirement, only experts with PhD level would be considered for the role. Project details Language Pair: Brazilian Portuguese Task: AI data annotation Area of expertise (domain): Law & Ethics Tools: Consumer-grade LLM with search (e.g., Gemini Pro), for prompt difficulty calibration Estimated Volume: 60 hours over approximately 2 months, the hours are flexible, work on your own schedule Location: Remote Engagement Type: Freelance / Independent Contractor If this opportunity aligns with your experience, we would be happy to receive your application. To proceed, please provide the following: Share an updated CV A brief overview of your relevant experience, particularly in Law & Ethics and how many years you have worked in the field Your current availability and estimated monthly capacity Thank you again for your interest in working with Welocalize. I look forward to learning more about your profile and exploring a potential collaboration. Welocalize Talent Management Team Job Reference: #LI-JC1
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