# We hire slowly, and keep people for a long time.

[Website page](https://verlineo.cc/careers) · en

This document reflects the public website. Starting rates are not a final quotation. Agreements for the individual project take precedence.

The bureau grows by one linguist at a time. If you translate into your mother tongue, in a field you have actually worked in, and you would rather raise a query than guess: we would like to read your application.

Every role is a staff position, not a place on a vendor list. Rates, hours and the terminology you inherit are all discussed before you are asked to translate anything.

## Legal linguist

DE → EN · What we are recruiting for.

Transaction documents and litigation bundles from German into English. A law degree or several years inside a firm matters more here than a translation qualification.

## Reviser, life sciences

EN → FR · What we are recruiting for.

Full bilingual revision of regulatory and clinical material into French. You will be reading against the source, line by line, and saying so when something is wrong.

## Localisation engineer

EN → ZH · JA · Filled

Owning the pipeline between our linguists and client repositories: formats, placeholders, pseudo-localisation and in-context review.

## Four things, and they are not negotiable.

## Your mother tongue, and nothing else

We do not ask anyone to translate out of their native language. It is the single clearest predictor of whether a text will read as though it was written rather than converted.

## A field you have worked in

Not a field you are interested in. We would rather hire a pharmacologist who translates than a translator who has read about pharmacology.

## The instinct to ask

The best test we have is a translation test with a deliberate ambiguity in it. What we are grading is whether you raise it. Candidates who resolve it silently do not get the job, however elegant the sentence.

## Willingness to be revised

Every text you produce will be read against the source by someone else, and you will revise theirs in turn. It only works between people who take the correction and not the offence.

## Four stages, about three weeks.

## Application

A CV and a short note on the fields you actually work in. No cover letter template: tell us what you have translated and for whom.

## Translation test

Around 400 words from a real domain, with a deliberate ambiguity in it. Paid at our standard rate whatever the outcome.

## Conversation

An hour with the lead linguist for your language, going through your test line by line. This is the stage that decides it.

## Trial project

One live file, fully revised as any other, with the reviser's comments shared with you in full.

Rates are published internally and are the same for everyone at the same level, in every country we hire in. We do not adjust pay to local cost of living: the work is worth what it is worth.

## Related pages

- [Speak to the bureau.](https://verlineo.cc/knowledge/en/contact.md)

[llms.txt](https://verlineo.cc/llms.txt)