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• LILT listed on the Inc. 5000 List for the first time.

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About Us

Lilt is the leading AI solution for enterprise translations. Our stack made up of our Contextual AI Engine, Connector APIs, and Human Adaptive Feedback enable global organizations to adopt a true AI translation strategy, focusing on business outcomes instead of outputs. With Lilt, innovative, category-defining organizations like Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, and Canva are using AI technology to deliver multilingual, digital customer experiences at scale.

Our founders, Spence and John met at Google working on Google Translate.  As researchers at Stanford and Berkeley, they both worked on language technology to make information accessible to everyone. They were amazed to learn that Google Translate wasn’t used for enterprise products and services inside the company and left to start a new company to address this need – Lilt. 

At its core, Lilt has always been a machine learning company since its incorporation on March 6, 2015. At the time, machine translation didn’t meet the quality standard for enterprise translations, so Lilt assembled a cutting-edge research team tasked with closing that gap. While meeting customer demand for translation services, Lilt has prioritized investments in Large Language Models, believing that this foundation was imperative to the future of enterprise translation.

As a result, Lilt’s AI technology foundation is similar to ChatGPT and Google Translate, before our patented Contextual AI Engine, connector-first approach, and human-adapted feedback.

Our team is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Berlin,

About Engineering 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.

About the Role

Work from home allowed up to 3x/wk (within reasonable commuting distance to Emeryville, CA).

This position is eligible for Lilt’s Employee Referral Program.

The Senior Staff Frontend Engineer will apply knowledge of graphic design and animation to perform the

following tasks, dividing time according to the approximate percentages set out below.

1. Execute graphic design tasks involve changing/adding user interface components on the

dashboard, designing, and implementing a customized user interface for translators.

(25%)

The application user interface goes through constant change and enhancements based on business

requirements and consumer feedback. This duty entails the following more specific tasks:

• Conducting meetings with managers and designers to gather business requirements and divide

them into technical tasks and sub-tasks.

• Discussing building wireframes and mockups with designers to set user interface expectations

corresponding to its look and functionality.

• Estimating work efforts based on complexity and time with managers and engineers for each task

following agile methodologies.

• Designing and developing features for customer-facing applications including adding/ modifying

content on the dashboard, adding better upload and download functionalities for all files formats

to be translated, build a robust dropdown that can be filtered by making labels.

• Using advanced CSS animations or third party javaScript plugins to build animations in UI

components to improve user interaction for customers from a static looking website to a more

dynamic experience.

2. Create graphic design templates like mockups and wireframes using Photoshop, Indesign,

or Sketch to display a visual representation of the web application to help and guide

engineers to understand the technical needs and develop the product. (10%)

The user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design process i