Your model sounds fluent in English and falls apart in Thai or Bahasa. Multilingual AI trainers write native-language prompts, grade responses and stress-test AI agents so US labs can ship in more markets.
Vetted on agentic workflows and matched to your stack before you see a résumé.
24 Hours
to get matched
50-70 %
payroll savings
92 %
talent retention rate
4.9
avg client rating
200 +
teams building with us
Vetted, available, ready to start.
Thai AI Trainer
🇹🇭Working remotely at a US E-commerce
Nattapong produces native Thai prompts and ideal responses. He rates model output for register and politeness, and flags content that reads as harmless in English but not in Thai.
Exp
6+ Years
English
Advanced
Ready
Full-time
Malay AI Trainer
🇲🇾Working remotely at a US Healthtech
Amir writes and rates Malay training data and fixes text that has drifted into Bahasa Indonesia vocabulary. He also covers the mixed Malay and English common in everyday chat.
Exp
6+ Years
English
Native
Ready
Full-time
Mandarin AI Trainer
🇨🇳Working remotely at a US Healthtech
Lin writes and reviews Mandarin training data in Simplified Chinese. She rates model answers for fluency and accuracy, and rewrites translated data so it reads natively.
Exp
6+ Years
English
Advanced
Ready
Full-time
Vietnamese AI Trainer
🇻🇳Working remotely at a US SaaS
Quynh Anh writes and rates Vietnamese training data for assistant models. She fixes stiff, translated phrasing and makes sure answers sound natural to readers in both the north and the south.
Exp
5+ Years
English
Advanced
Ready
Full-time
Cantonese AI Trainer
🇭🇰Working remotely at a US Fintech
Karen writes written-Cantonese and Traditional Chinese data for Hong Kong users. She rates model output for natural phrasing and catches answers that slip into mainland usage.
Exp
7+ Years
English
Native
Ready
Full-time
Filipino AI Trainer
🇵🇭Working remotely at a US SaaS
Angelica writes Filipino and mixed Filipino-English data the way users really type it. She rates model output for tone and cultural fit as well as accuracy.
Exp
5+ Years
English
Native
Ready
Full-time
Dedicated AI training specialists who produce the human data your model learns from. Pre-vetted, compliant, and matched in 24 hours.
Specialists who work on your project only, learn your guidelines deeply, and hold the same quality bar week after week. Your data stays in your own tools.
Every candidate applies a real rubric to tasks with known answers. We score agreement, read every rationale, and check references. Only the top few percent pass.
Engineers, scientists, finance, legal, and medical professionals, plus native speakers of Vietnamese, Thai, Bahasa, Filipino, Malay, and Chinese.
We handle contracts, payroll, and compliance through our Employer of Record. You go from brief to a working specialist inside a week.
Results our clients achieved.
$200K
saved in hiring costs
A social polling platform that needed two senior engineers in place within weeks of launch.
$27M
Series A raised
An industrial AI company that filled three briefs from one pipeline, then raised a $27M Series A.
8
engineers hired
The freight company behind the internet's first load board, adding capacity outside the US.
14
developers hired
A global real-estate coaching company that built its first engineering function from zero.
70%
productivity boost
A Web3 education platform that hired ten engineers to accelerate its product roadmap.
$1.5B
acquisition outcome
A machine-learning car marketplace that grew its Taiwan team and was acquired by Carro.
70%
labor cost saved
A luxury jewelry retailer with 870 stores across Asia, staffing its e-commerce push.
70%
efficiency gain
A digital health platform that moved delivery to Vietnam and Malaysia without slowing down.
50%
productivity uplift
A Bitcoin restaking platform that added frontend and design capacity as it scaled.
3
role types staffed
A luxury retail group in Asia that stood up a Vietnam tech team in two months.
3 days
to first SDR hire
An omnichannel chat platform that built its lead generation team out of Indonesia.
2 mo
hiring time saved
A blockchain wellness platform that hired the lead engineer anchoring its offshore team.
Matched in 24 hours. Pre-vetted for your exact specialism. Transparent pricing.
Tell us the task types, your guidelines, the languages or fields involved, and the volume you expect.
24-hour shortlist of pre-vetted specialists with real portfolio work. Interview the ones you like.
We handle EOR, payroll, and compliance. Your specialist delivers real output in the first week.
Feedback from teams who hired through us.
Thanks to Second Talent, Open Campus quickly built a skilled tech team of 10 within two months, boosting productivity by 70% and accelerating our Web3 platform's development.
This success has strengthened our role in decentralized education and fueled our market expansion, highlighting our leadership in Web3 innovation.
Jonah L.
Head of Portfolio (raised US$100m)
Second Talent helped Beyond Cars (acquired by Carro) swiftly build a top-tier tech team in just a month, accelerating our platform's development and boosting productivity.
This success allowed us to expand into new markets, ultimately leading to our acquisition by a major automotive e-commerce company.
Garry Y.
Co-Founder (acquired by Carro)
Partnering with Second Talent has been a game-changer for our tech expansion.
Their ability to source top-tier talent from Vietnam helped us scale rapidly while maintaining quality. Their pre-vetted candidates integrated seamlessly, and their account management ensured smooth onboarding.
Tom F.
Co-founder (#1 US Real Estate Coach)
Second Talent played a key role in our tech expansion, quickly providing high-quality frontend talent that integrated seamlessly into our projects.
Their pre-vetted candidates, smooth onboarding process, and excellent support helped us build a strong, cost-effective team that drives our success.
Marco A.
Co-founder & CTO
Second Talent built our team of pre-vetted engineers who made our hiring decisions straightforward.
Once onboarded, our tech team saw a significant boost in productivity and development speed. Their excellent account management and responsive customer service also ensured smooth handling of all post-onboarding HR matters.
Jack N.
Director of IT (10,000+ employees)
Second Talent helped us rapidly scale by sourcing top-quality SDR talent from Indonesia.
Their pre-screened candidates fit perfectly, and their smooth onboarding and support built a strong, cost-effective team that helped to test and experiment sales with another market.
Leo W.
Co-founder (raised US$5m)
Human feedback, code, expert knowledge, and native language data. Pick a role to see profiles, rates, and a hiring guide.
Other specialist roles
TL;DR: Hire a pre-vetted multilingual AI trainer from across Asia for $1,000–$4,000/mo. Native speakers of Vietnamese, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Filipino, Malay, Mandarin, and Cantonese who write, review, and rate model output in their own language. Shortlist in 24 hours, $0 upfront.
Most training data is written in English, and it shows. Models that feel sharp in English often sound stiff, overly formal, or plainly wrong in Asian languages. They miss honorifics, mix registers, translate idioms word for word, and stumble on local names, places, and customs. Machine-translating English data does not fix this. It carries the same mistakes into a new language.
A multilingual AI trainer is a native speaker who writes and judges data in their own language. They know how a customer in Ho Chi Minh City or Jakarta actually asks a question, and what a natural, polite answer sounds like.
Every trainer also works fluently in English, so they can follow your guidelines and write rationales your team can read.
| Language | Main markets | What trainers watch for |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | Vietnam | Tone marks, northern and southern usage |
| Thai | Thailand | Word segmentation, polite particles, formal registers |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Indonesia | Formal and everyday registers, regional loanwords |
| Filipino (Tagalog) | Philippines | Frequent switching with English |
| Malay | Malaysia, Singapore | Vocabulary that differs from Bahasa Indonesia |
| Mandarin (Simplified Chinese) | China, Singapore, Malaysia | Mainland and regional usage |
| Cantonese and Traditional Chinese | Hong Kong | Written Cantonese versus standard written Chinese |
Monthly ranges for 2026, full-time and dedicated to your project:
| Level | Monthly (Asia) | Typical profile |
|---|---|---|
| Junior | $1,000–$1,800 | Native speaker and strong writer, first AI project |
| Mid | $1,800–$2,800 | Has rated or written data to a rubric at volume |
| Senior | $2,800–$4,000 | Reviews others, writes language-specific guidelines |
| Lead | $4,000+ | Owns quality for a language |
Rates vary by language and market. See the Asia Tech Salary Index for country-level context.
Native fluency is the starting point, not the bar. Our process includes a writing test in the target language, a rating exercise on model output with known answers, a translation review task, an English check so the trainer can work from your guidelines, and reference checks. Language tasks are scored for accuracy and naturalness, not just grammar. Only the top few percent pass.
We look for trainers who can explain why a sentence sounds wrong to a native ear. That explanation is what turns a rating into useful training data.
Share your brief: the languages, the task types, your guidelines, and the volume you expect. We send a shortlist of pre-vetted multilingual AI trainers within 24 hours. You interview the candidates you like and can set them your own sample task. We handle contracts, payroll, and compliance through our Employer of Record service, so there is no local entity to set up.
Most clients go from first call to a working trainer in under a week. If the fit is wrong, our 90-day replacement guarantee covers a re-match at no extra cost.
Need expert knowledge as well as language? See Domain Expert AI Trainers. Need preference data in English? See RLHF Specialists. For high-volume labelling in these languages, look at our data annotation specialists, or browse all AI training specialists.
Tell us which languages your model needs to speak well. We will deliver a pre-vetted shortlist within 24 hours. Book a free consultation to begin.
Answers to common questions.
$0 upfront. 90-day replacement guarantee. We handle payroll and compliance.
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