Audio AI Trainer
Anuttacon
🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote contract position at Anuttacon is open to applicants from South Africa. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
🎮Our Culture:
Our culture thrives on creativity, communication, and collaboration. Around here, the work is all part of the game! You’ll have fun, make great connections, and get to directly experience the impact of what your training produces.
🚀About Us:
Anuttacon’s mission is to create immersive and personalized virtual worlds where players can form unique connections and deeper experiences in digital spaces. We are dedicated to leveraging different perspectives, voices, and backgrounds to promote a thoughtful and humanistic approach to technology. Through research-driven and explorative AI, we aim to create real-time interactions that seamlessly blend text, audio, visuals, and beyond.
🤖About the Role:
We’re looking for individuals with diverse expertise to join our data team as AI Trainers. In this role, you will be directly involved in improving the accuracy and performance of our multimodal models.
🖥️Responsibilities:
* Annotate text transcripts based on audio content to support various aspects of game design, such as dialogues, quests, character interactions, and scenes
* Ensure accuracy and consistency in the data across various dimensions to optimize players’ gaming experience
* Recognize nuanced expressions of a wide array of emotional tones and inflections
* Annotate and tag model responses against our evaluation rubrics in an effort to improve dialogue and overall interactions to achieve the best user experience possible
* Collaborate with our leads to develop state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition models and so much more
🙂About You:
* Native or highly fluent in conversational English, able to accurately transcribe a broad range of accents, utilizing slang/colloquialisms
* Have a passion for gaming, especially those experienced in narrative games
* Comfortable working in a fun and fast-paced gaming-centric culture with a hands-on approach
* Strong attention to detail and a commitment to producing high-quality work in a flexible, dynamic environment
* Ability to move quickly and think on your feet in an ever-changing environment where you’ll have to rely on your intuition and best judgment to guide you
* Good communication skills; able to give and receive feedback positively and professionally
* Ability to follow complex guidelines and apply them consistently with a high degree of confidence and accuracy
* Ability to work both independently and as part of a team, with a focus on achieving aligned consensus without sacrificing standards
đź§ Nice to Haves:
* Degree and/or experience in the following fields are a plus:
* Media, film, video, audio, or narrative design/engineering
* Creative writing, copywriting, communications, English, editing
* Performing arts, voice work, or expressive presentation
* Psychology, philosophy, or other fields focused on human behavior and thought
* Previous experience working with AI/ML concepts or working with data analysis, data manipulation, and data reporting
đź’° Compensation & other expectations:
* US Hourly rate: $25 (depending on your role and qualifications).Compensation varies based on location and experience. International rates will differ.
* Able to dedicate a minimum of 20 flexible hours per week
* Opportunity to work 40+ hours based on your availability
* There will be exciting bonus opportunities and room for rapid growth!
🛡️ Content & Safety Awareness:
* Creating a safer digital world involves teaching AI to recognize and avoid harmful content. Projects require reviewingsensitive or challenging material. A commitment to navigating these topics with professional objectivity is required for this role to help us build stronger ethical guardrails for AI.
Tips for South African Applicants
Timezone Advantage
South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.
Salary in Context
Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.
Application Tips
Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.
Load Shedding Preparedness
If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.
About Anuttacon
Anuttacon is a company in the AI / ML industry that hires remote workers from South Africa.