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.

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. The person in this role may have technical leadership responsibility depending of experience and will collaborate to build the roadmap of the DevOps organization.

This position is a CONTRACT position between 6-12 months in length. Possibly more. Fully remote. Please note, work authorization in your area is a must.

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

• Technically lead a group of subject-matter experts
  

Skills and Experience:

• 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

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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.