Company brief · updated 2026-10-18
sdl.com · software industry · Scale intelligent content, global experiences
and protected ideas.
Today: Trusted by regulated industries; Human expertise in the loop (site headings)
Roles: Legal Annotators - Russian · Legal Annotators - Russian · Legal Annotators - Korean · Legal Annotators - Chinese (Traditional) · Legal Annotators - Chinese (Simplified) · Legal Annotators - Russian · Legal Annotators - Portuguese (Portugal) · Legal Annotators - Polish · Legal Annotators - Italian · Legal Annotators - Dutch
Requirements mention: Contract or legal domain expertise · contract-review skills · Analyzing clauses, obligations, and terms · contract management platforms · secure client environments · Fluency in English · Prior data-annotation experience (some postings)
Inference: RWS is staffing annotators to train and evaluate AI that automates contract management and analysis, working in secure client environments. Eight postings opened on 2026-09-16 and two more Russian roles on 2026-10-09. Posted rates run from 16.20 to 36.45 USD/hour.
Today: AI Search (site heading)
Roles: Search Engine Evaluator - Norwegian (Norway) · Search Engine Evaluator - Odia (India) · Search Engine Evaluator - Marathi (India) · Search Engine Evaluator - Polish (Poland) · Search Engine Evaluator - Spanish (Argentina) · Search Engine Evaluator - Italian (Switzerland) · Search Engine Evaluator - Hebrew (Israel) · Search Engine Evaluator - Gujarati (India) · Search Engine Evaluator - German (Switzerland) · Search Engine Evaluator - German (Austria) · Search Engine Evaluator - French (Switzerland) · Search Engine Evaluator - French (Canada) · Search Engine Evaluator - French (Belgium) · Search Engine Evaluator - Spanish (United States) · Search Engine Evaluator - English (Singapore) · Search Engine Evaluator - English (New Zealand) · Search Engine Evaluator - English (Ireland) · Search Engine Evaluator - Swedish (Sweden) · Search Engine Evaluator - Tamil (India) · Search Engine Evaluator - English (Australia) · Search Engine Evaluator - Telugu (India) · Search Engine Evaluator - Thai (Thailand) · Search Engine Evaluator - Dutch (Netherlands) · Search Engine Evaluator - Dutch (Belgium) · Search Engine Evaluator - Turkish (Turkiye) · Search Engine Evaluator - Ukrainian (Ukraine) · Search Engine Evaluator - Danish (Denmark) · Search Engine Evaluator - Chinese Traditional (Taiwan) · Search Engine Evaluator - Chinese Traditional (Hong Kong) · Search Engine Evaluator - Chinese Simplified (China) · Search Engine Evaluator - Vietnamese (Vietnam) · Search Engine Evaluator - Bengali (India) · Search Engine Evaluator - Arabic (Saudi Arabia) · Search Engine Evaluator - Kannada (India) · Search Engine Evaluator - Spanish (Mexico) · Search Engine Evaluator - Spanish (Spain) · Search Engine Evaluator - Korean (South Korea) · Search Engine Evaluator - Japanese (Japan) · Search Engine Evaluator - French (France)
Requirements mention: online research · quality and accuracy SLAs · critical thinker · search expertise (most postings) · English and [language] proficiency (about half of postings)
Inference: search evaluation is the largest group of open roles, 39 of 95. Of these, 34 opened on 2026-10-02 and 5 have been open since 2024-10-14. The postings describe testing how clients' search engines respond to everyday searches in order to refine AI data.
Today: Human expertise in the loop (site heading)
Roles: Speech AI Evaluation Specialist - Japanese (Japan) · Speech AI Evaluation Specialist - Chinese Simplified (Thailand) · Speech AI Evaluation Specialist - Chinese Simplified (Malaysia) · Speech AI Evaluation Specialist - Vietnamese (Malaysia) · Speech AI Evaluation Specialist - Vietnamese (Thailand) · Speech AI Evaluation Specialist - Vietnamese (USA) · Speech AI Evaluation Specialist - Chinese Simplified (USA) · Speech AI Evaluation Specialist - Korean (Korea) · Speech AI Evaluation Specialist - Thai · Speech AI Evaluation Specialist - Italian (Italy) · Speech AI Evaluation Specialist - French (France) · Speech AI Evaluation Specialist - German (Germany)
Requirements mention: Native-level fluency in [stated language] (most postings) · Fluent or advanced proficiency in English · machine learning tasks · data evaluation and quality assurance · designated platform (some postings)
Inference: the postings describe evaluating voice conversations with AI models. Most opened 2026-06-08 to 2026-06-11. Roles are located in Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, Italy, France and Germany, plus two US postings listed as Remote. The Vietnamese roles sit in Malaysia, Thailand and the US. The Japanese (Japan) posting actually describes Bengali work and asks for native-level Bengali.
Today: Human expertise in the loop (site heading)
Roles: Brazilian Portuguese - Religion & Philosophy Subject Matter Expert (SME) · Brazilian Portuguese - Games & Puzzles Subject Matter Expert (SME) · Brazilian Portuguese - Literature & Linguistics Subject Matter Expert (SME) · Brazilian Portuguese - Animals & Pets Subject Matter Expert (SME) · Brazilian Portuguese - Food, Drink & Culinary Culture Subject Matter Expert (SME) · Brazilian Portuguese - TV, Film, Animation & Cartoons Subject Matter Expert (SME) · Brazilian Portuguese - Internet Culture Subject Matter Expert (SME) · Brazilian Portuguese - Fashion & Style Subject Matter Expert (SME) · Brazilian Portuguese - Law & Ethics Subject Matter Expert (SME) · Brazilian Portuguese - Fandoms Subject Matter Expert (SME) · Brazilian Portuguese - Arts Subject Matter Expert (SME) · Brazilian Portuguese - History Subject Matter Expert (SME) · Brazilian Portuguese - Sports Subject Matter Expert (SME) · Brazilian Portuguese - Home & Garden Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Requirements mention: Brazilian Portuguese · strong writing skills · deep domain knowledge · critical thinking
Inference: these 14 SME roles were all posted 2026-05-05 to 2026-05-08 and are listed in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro or Recife. They are for a benchmark that evaluates how AI systems handle complex, real-world questions in Brazilian Portuguese. No pay is posted.
Today: Data you can trust (site heading)
Roles: AI Data Specialist - Korean · AI Data Specialist - Thai · AI Data Specialist - German · AI Data Specialist - Japanese · AI Data Specialist - Vietnamese · AI Data Specialist - French · AI Data Specialist - Chinese · AI Data Specialist - Italian
Requirements mention: Pairwise comparisons · Counting tasks · Object tagging and labeling · data annotation and labeling · Native-level fluency in [language]
Inference: these postings, dated 2025-09-16 to 2026-06-18, describe improving AI-generated content in each language. Because of their age, they read as ongoing work rather than a new push.
| Department | Open |
|---|---|
| RWS | 100 |
All 95 roles sit in a single RWS bucket (sdl.com presents itself as RWS) and are remote AI data and evaluation postings, mostly with hourly pay. They are concentrated in search evaluation (39), Brazilian Portuguese SMEs (14), Speech AI evaluation (12) and legal annotation (10), which fits the site's 'Human expertise in the loop' positioning.
Seniority: Postings mostly do not state seniority: 48 unknown, 37 junior, 6 senior, 4 intern.
Skills named most: online research, critical thinker, analyze information, quality and accuracy SLAs, search expertise, search engine, data annotation and labeling, machine learning tasks, data collection and preprocessing, data evaluation and quality assurance, contract management platforms, secure client environments
Locations: All 95 roles are marked remote. Locations as posted: New Delhi (7), São Paulo (6), Bangkok (5), Rio de Janeiro (5), Seoul (4), Kuala Lumpur (4), Warsaw (3), Bern (3), Amsterdam (3), Riyadh (3), Tokyo (3), Rome (3). Some titles name a country that differs from the listed city, such as Vietnamese (Malaysia) in Kuala Lumpur.
If you're applying: Start with the search evaluation (39) and legal annotation (10) groups, then find the exact title for your language and location. Read the requirements, not just the title: the Speech AI Evaluation Specialist - Japanese (Japan) posting asks for native-level Bengali. Posted pay varies widely by market: search evaluators earn up to 5 USD/hour in India and up to 30 USD/hour in Switzerland, legal annotators 16.20–36.45 USD/hour, and speech evaluators 4–18 USD per hour. Every role is marked remote, but most name a city or country.
If you're selling or recruiting: All 95 open roles sit under RWS. Of these, 40 opened in the last 30 days against 14 in the prior 30, and 19 closed; the computed flag is accelerating. The recent activity is the 34 search evaluator postings opened 2026-10-02 and the 10 legal annotator roles opened Sept–Oct 2026. The Brazilian Portuguese benchmark (May 2026) and the AI Data Specialist roles (2025-09 to 2026-06) are older. Ask which languages and client programs are being added next.