LILT in the News

• List #52 in The Software Report’s Top 100 Software Companies!

• LILT makes it onto the Inc. 5000 List.

• AI Day Spring 2025 Webinar "Revolutionizing Content with AI Agents."

• LILT's co-founder John Denero, and employees Joern Wuebker and Thomas Zenkel, were approved for U.S. Patent for their neural word alignment process, significantly advances machine translation by preserving formatting accuracy.

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About LILT

LILT was founded by Spence and John, who met at Google working on Google Translate and saw the need for better AI-powered translation in the enterprise. Since 2015, LILT has focused on building cutting-edge language technology, investing early in Large Language Models to improve translation quality and meet the demands of global organizations.

Today, LILT’s Contextual AI Engine, Connector APIs, and Human Adaptive Feedback deliver accurate, nuanced translation across text, video, and speech in 100+ languages. Integrated with 100+ business systems, LILT helps enterprises scale global growth and deliver seamless multilingual experiences. We are trusted by Intel Corporation, Canva, the United States Department of Defense, the United States Air Force, ASICS, and hundreds of global Enterprises. LILT is backed by visionary investors including Intel Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Redpoint.

The Engineering Team at Lilt

Lilt is a high-performance, large-scale language translation system. We invest in and prioritize workflow (i.e., usability and interface design) and backend AI systems. Since the translation workforce is distributed worldwide, there are interesting cloud engineering problems to solve. We have a strong preference for building our own backend technology, so you’ll be implementing and working with the latest natural language processing (NLP) techniques and ideas.

Where you'll work

Get the best of both worlds at LILT! Dive into dynamic in-office energy 2 days a week, sparking creativity and forging bonds with your awesome team. Then, seamlessly shift gears and crush your to-do list from the comfort of your home base for the rest of the week. It's the perfect harmony of productivity and personal freedom. Want a peek inside? Visit our Careers page!

This position is based out of our Washington D.C metropolitan area Virginia, (or Annapolis Junction, MD) where you will start as fully remote and then transition to hybrid once offices are opened in this location. Fully remote applicants will also be considered.

What You’ll Do

Lilt is seeking a world-class devops engineer to build highly reliable software systems at Lilt. Your job will be to apply your software talents to our infrastructure and operations needs, including bare-metal Linux deployments and commercial deployments in GCP and AWS. Our system requires low latency worldwide, so you’ll continuously improve our multi-region configuration, and help us expand into new regions. You will collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to support new and on-going products.

This position is based out of our Washington D.C. hub where you will start as fully remote and then transition to hybrid once an office is opened.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support technical operations in our development and production systems

• Deliver infrastructure engineering projects to support company initiatives

• Collaborate with our research and development teams to deliver software fast and reliably

• Secure our platform infrastructure and harden our on-premise builds

• Ensure high uptime and fast, multi-regional server and DB performance for the lilt.com production system

• Work with engineering teams to set, measure, and reach SLIs and SLOs for SLAs

• Contribute to infrastructure and engineering roadmap planning, set and attain quarterly OKRs

• Execute on the roadmap in sprints, and adhere to SCRUM best practices

• Introduce and implement new technologies and best practices in InfoSec, DevOps and Site Reliability

• Support our self-managed customers on-site

Skills and Experience:

The candidate is required to have and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph and to satisfy other security-related requirements.

• Minimum 3 years experience as Linux System Administrator, DevOps Engineer or similar position.

• Strong knowledge of at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash).

• High proficiency with at least one configuration management/infrastructure as code (IaC) tool, preferably Terraform.

• Experience with GCP services such as Compute Engine, shared VPC, and data analytics or equivalents from other vendors.

• Solid understanding of Docker and hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes or Swarm.

• Expertise in monitoring/alerting and maintaining high production availability

• Experience with CI/CD tools and concepts, such as Jenkins 

• Preferred, but not required: Experience in DevSecOps best practices, MLOps, GCP Landzone and/or DB administration

• U.S. citizenship is a precondition of employment.

• The candidate is required to have and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph and to satisfy other security-related requirements.

Benefits

• Compensation: Competitive salary, meaningful equity, 401(k) matching, and flexible time off plus company holidays.

• Medical Benefits: Employees receive coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance, and more. In addition, Lilt pays for basic life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability.

• Paid parental leave is provided after 6 months.

• Monthly lifestyle benefit stipend via the Fringe platform to allow employees to customize benefits to their lifestyle.

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At LILT, we are committed to a fair, inclusive, and transparent hiring process. As part of our recruitment efforts, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) and automated tools to assist in the evaluation of applications, including résumé screening, assessment scoring, and interview analysis. These tools are designed to support human decision-making and help us identify qualified candidates efficiently and objectively. All final hiring decisions are made by people. If you have any concerns or require accommodations related to the use of AI in our hiring process, please let us know at recruiting@lilt.com.

LILT is an equal opportunity employer. We extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to an individual’s race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic characteristics, veteran or marital status, pregnancy, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state or federal laws. We are committed to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices.