
Interested in freelancing for one of the world's leading localization companies? Find out about freelance translation jobs at SDL.
As a leading supplier of localization services to the IT, engineering, e-business & Multimedia sectors, we are always looking for the very best freelance translators to join our translation team.
If you are an experienced and motivated freelance translator, with a solid translation background, you could be joining our freelance team and enjoying the many benefits that freelance work with SDL offers.
We are currently looking for freelance translators who meet the following criteria:
Minimum 2 years freelance translation experience or 1 year in-house translation experience.
We also welcome applications from translators with relevant alternative experience or qualifications.
Currently, we are actively recruiting freelance translators in the following Specialist Subjects and Language Combinations (languages listed are target languages):
Subject areas for which we seek translators ( ) | ||||||||||||||
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| English to Arabic | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Construction Equipment, CAD/CAM | ||||||||
| English to Basque | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |||||||||||
| English to Portuguese (Brazilian) | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | CAD/CAM | ||||||||||
| English to Bulgarian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Agricultural Machinery | |||||||||
| English to Chinese (Simplified) | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Oil refinery processes/petrochemical industry, Construction Equipment, CAD/CAM | |||
| English to Chinese (Traditional) | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Construction Equipment, CAD/CAM | |||
| English to Chinese (Hong Kong) | ![]() | |||||||||||||
| English to Croatian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Agricultural Machinery | ||||||||
| English to Czech | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Agricultural Machinery, Electrical Engineering, Construction Equipment, CAD/CAM | |||
| English to Danish | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Oil refinery processes/petrochemical industry, Machinery, Agricultural Machinery, Biochemistry, Construction Equipment, CAD/CAM | |||
| English to Dari | ![]() | Agricultural Machinery, Construction Equipment | ||||||||||||
| English to Dutch | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Agricultural Machinery, Oil refinery processes/petrochemical industry, CAD/CAM | |||||
| English to Estonian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Agricultural Machinery | |||
| English to Finnish | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Agricultural Machinery, Construction Equipment, CAD/CAM | |||
| English to French | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Banking, Construction Equipment, CAD/CAM | |||
| English to French (Canadian) | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ERP Software, Insurance, Banking (operations, systems) | |||
| English to Galician | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |||||||||||
| English to German | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | CAD/CAM, Post-Editing, Pharmaceutical | |||||||
| English to Greek | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Wind Energy, Agricultural Machinery, Consumer electronics, Mobile phones, Gambling | ||||||
| English to Indonesian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Construction Equipment | |||
| English to Hungarian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Agricultural Machinery, CAD/CAM | ||||
| English to Irish Gaelic | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |||||||||||
| English to Italian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Construction Equipment, CAD/CAM | ||||||||
| English to Japanese | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Construction Equipment, CAD/CAM | ||
| English to Korean | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | SAP, Materials Handling, Electrical, Construction Equipment, CAD/CAM | |||||||
| English to Latvian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Agricultural Machinery | |||
| English to Lithuanian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Agricultural Machinery | |||
| English to Malay | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Oil refinery processes/petrochemical industry | |||
| English to Norwegian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Oil refinery processes/petrochemical industry, HSE (Health, Safety, Environment), construction, chemistry, online games/gambling, Agricultural Machinery, Construction Equipment, CAD/CAM | |||
| English to Polish | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Construction Equipment, CAD/CAM | ||||
| English to Portuguese (European) | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Construction Equipment, CAD/CAM | |||||||
| English to Romanian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Software, Agricultural Machinery, Food Industry, Construction Equipment | |||
| English to Russian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | CAD/CAM | ||||||||
| English to Serbian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Agricultural Machinery | ||||||||
| English to Slovak | Construction Equipment | |||||||||||||
| English to Slovenian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Agricultural Machinery, Construction Equipment | |||
| English to Spanish (Latin American) | Oil refinery processes/petrochemical industry, Construction Equipment, CAD/CAM | |||||||||||||
| English to Spanish (Standard European) | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Agricultural Machinery, Insurance, Leasing, Banking, Stock Market Reports, CAD/CAM | |||||||
| English to Swedish | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Agricultural Machinery, Legal (EULA), Oil refinery processes/petrochemical industry, Construction Equipment, CAD/CAM | ||||||||
| English to Tagalog | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ||||
| English to Thai | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Oil refinery processes/petrochemical industry | |||||||||
| English to Turkish | Construction Equipment, CAD/CAM | |||||||||||||
| English to Vietnamese | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ||||
| English to Hindi | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||||
| English to Bangla | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||||
| English to Marathi | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||||
| English to Sinhala | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||||
| English to Telugu | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||||
| English to Punjabi | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||||
| English to Malayalam | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||||
| English to Bengali | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||||
| English to Gujarati | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||||
| English to Kannada | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||||
| English to Tamil | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||||
| English to Assamese | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||||
| English to Kashmiri | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||||
| English to Oriya | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||||
| English to Urdu | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||||
| German to Chinese | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||
| German to Croatian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |||||||||
| German to Danish | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Chemistry, Machinery, | ||||||||
| German to Dutch | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ERP Software | |||||||
| German to English | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Taxation, Insurance, SAP, Materials Handling, Agricultural Machinery | ||||||
| German to French | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Insurance, Banking, Plumbing Systems | ||||
| German to Greek | ![]() | Wind Energy, Agricultural Machinery | ||||||||||||
| German to Hungarian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |||||||||
| German to Japanese | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |||||||
| German to Romanian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Food Industry | ||||||||||
| German to Russian | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||||
| German to Serbian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |||||||||
| German to Slovenian | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ||||
| German to Spanish | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||
| Italian to English | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |||||||||
| Korean to English | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||
| Chinese (Traditional) to English | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ||||
| Chinese (Simplified) to English | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | General | ||||||||
| Danish to English | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Machinery, Life Sciences | ||||||
| Dutch to English | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Construction, Civil Engineering, Electrical | |||||||
| Dutch to German | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||
| Dutch to French | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||
| Finnish to Swedish | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Agricultural Machinery | ||||||||||
| French to English | ![]() | ![]() | Agricultural Machinery | |||||||||||
| French to German | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||||
| Norwegian to German | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |||||||||||
| Spanish to German | ![]() | Preferably with State Examination in Law | ||||||||||||
| Swedish to English | General | |||||||||||||
| Swedish to German | ![]() | Preferably with State Examination in Law | ||||||||||||
SDL uses the leading Computer Aided Translation tools on the majority of its projects, and for most projects SDL products are required. If you are considered for addition to our Database and are successful with your tests, as an individual Registered SDL Freelance Translator, we can offer you very special reduced pricing on SDL products. Many of our freelancers take advantage of this opportunity to acquire the latest release of the leading CAT tool - whose new features, modern functionality and even faster performance make it the most advanced, recognized Translation Memory product on the market today - at a much reduced price.
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