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I am Marina Di Candia, a multilingual master’s graduate in Linguistics and International Management, based in Rome, Italy. I enjoy applying my background in linguistics and business administration to AI training, data annotation, and translation.\n\nI have hands-on experience as an AI trainer and QA professional, including designing prompts and step-by-step explanations for LLMs, supervising data labeling for OCR and speech tasks, and coordinating Italian locale teams. I’m fluent in Italian and English and have working knowledge of Russian, Spanish, and Chinese, with a passion for cross-cultural communication and continuous learning.…I am Marina Di Candia, a multilingual master’s graduate in Linguistics and International Management, based in Rome, Italy. I enjoy applying my background in linguistics and business administration to AI training, data annotation, and translation.\n\nI have hands-on experience as an AI trainer and QA professional, including designing prompts and step-by-step explanations for LLMs, supervising data labeling for OCR and speech tasks, and coordinating Italian locale teams. I’m fluent in Italian and English and have working knowledge of Russian, Spanish, and Chinese, with a passion for cross-cultural communication and continuous learning.

Marina Di Candia

Data Annotator, Data Scientist, AI Engineer

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I am Marina Di Candia, a multilingual master’s graduate in Linguistics and International Management, based in Rome, Italy. I enjoy applying my background in linguistics and business administration to AI training, data annotation, and translation.\n\nI have hands-on experience as an AI trainer and QA professional, including designing prompts and step-by-step explanations for LLMs, supervising data labeling for OCR and speech tasks, and coordinating Italian locale teams. I’m fluent in Italian and English and have working knowledge of Russian, Spanish, and Chinese, with a passion for cross-cultural communication and continuous learning.…I am Marina Di Candia, a multilingual master’s graduate in Linguistics and International Management, based in Rome, Italy. I enjoy applying my background in linguistics and business administration to AI training, data annotation, and translation.\n\nI have hands-on experience as an AI trainer and QA professional, including designing prompts and step-by-step explanations for LLMs, supervising data labeling for OCR and speech tasks, and coordinating Italian locale teams. I’m fluent in Italian and English and have working knowledge of Russian, Spanish, and Chinese, with a passion for cross-cultural communication and continuous learning.

Available to hire

I am Marina Di Candia, a multilingual master’s graduate in Linguistics and International Management, based in Rome, Italy. I enjoy applying my background in linguistics and business administration to AI training, data annotation, and translation.\n\nI have hands-on experience as an AI trainer and QA professional, including designing prompts and step-by-step explanations for LLMs, supervising data labeling for OCR and speech tasks, and coordinating Italian locale teams. I’m fluent in Italian and English and have working knowledge of Russian, Spanish, and Chinese, with a passion for cross-cultural communication and continuous learning.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Beginner

Beginner

Beginner

Language

Italian

Fluent

English

Fluent

Russian

Intermediate

Spanish; Castilian

Intermediate

Chinese

Beginner

Work Experience

Advanced AI Trainer at Invisible Technologies

November 5, 2024 - November 5, 2024

Wrote and optimized prompts for the development of LLMs in finance/economics/statistics for the U.S. locale; designed multi-level prompts to improve model reasoning; crafted responses and step-by-step explanations to teach statistics.

AI Trainer at Centific

March 1, 2020 - October 28, 2025

QA on search engine evaluations; QA on audio transcriptions; data collection, annotation, and tagging to train OCR systems; managed Italian locale collaborators; evaluated voice assistant triggers; proofread transcriptions and translations; annotated search queries and social media content; assessed machine-generated voice naturalness and quality; audited content and provided feedback to improve model performance; contributed to prompt engineering, supervised fine-tuning (SFT), and RLHF.

Social Media Evaluator / AI Training Contributor at Appen Global Ltd

August 31, 2018 - August 31, 2018

Contributed to AI training projects: social media evaluation, audio recording and transcription, audio evaluation, smart assistants training; evaluated sponsored posts in Italian and supported QA tasks.

Freelance Translator EN-IT at Self-employed

May 1, 2018 - October 28, 2025

Translate English into Italian technical documents, product instructions, and e-commerce listings; provide English tutoring to Italian speakers.

Multilingual Junior Recruitment Consultant at Bespoke Recruitment Ltd

November 30, 2017 - November 30, 2017

360 recruitment for the Italian market; candidate sourcing, interview coordination, proficiency evaluation in Italian and English, translating job specifications, pre-screening via cold calls, creating job content for boards and social media; participated in mock interviews and acted as account manager for clients.