Who we are
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:
them into technical tasks and sub-tasks.
corresponding to its look and functionality.
following agile methodologies.
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.
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 involves utilizing creative and technical
problem-solving and storytelling skills. Areas of focus incorporate content, visual design and
development, information architecture, branding, and customer/technical support. This duty entails the
following more specific tasks:
results
problems and improve them.
Creating wireframes, mocks, storyboard, flow charts using a sketch, illustrator, Photoshop to
create a template for development
● Reviewing the design with designers and communicate the development implementation with
other engineers.
3. Research graphic design industry trends and best user-centered design practices using
Photoshop, CSS 3, SASS framework along with CSS media queries for desktop and mobile
software responsiveness. (10%)
This task requires the Senior Staff Frontend Engineer to continually keeping themselves and their
product, Design, and engineering team updated with the latest design changes and trends in industry
standards. More specifically, this includes:
regulations
direction for navigation
tasks easier
better readability and proper adjustment of UI content and elements (cards, dropdowns, modals,
sidebar navigation).
HTML, CSS 3, media queries, JSS, Sass.
4. Collaborate with graphic designers and engineers with creative and technical problems
and work with software Front End, Back End, Quality Analysts, and Product Managers to
participate in collecting software user interface and user experience graphic design
requirements. Also, work with Graphic Designers, Product Managers, Front End, Back
End, and Quality Assurance Engineers to participate in requirements gathering estimation,
and planning meetings. (10%)
Planning meetings and discussions are crucial day-to-day aspects of the Senior Staff Frontend Engineer
position because it involves evaluating high-level requirements from the product team by asking the right
questions, dividing them into engineering tasks, updating progress, and delivering features before the due
date. These duties include:
discussion with business stakeholders.
indicate the duration taken to finish the work.
architecture, discussing it during a detailed requirement gathering phase.
5. Participate in Agile software methodologies for graphic design, including participating in
daily standup meetings to report daily status and to bring up any matters preventing
progress. (5%)
This task requires constant communication between designers, engineers and program managers on
product feature updates to deliver features before deadlines, keep everyone on the same page and
address any issues that may arise during the product development cycle. More specifically, this duty
entails the following:
discuss the work status of the present and previous day.
ideas to resolve them. For example, code deployment build failures on Github (central repository
for developers to merge all code) block the new features from getting merged in production.
the current product features such as performance and visual improvements of the application.
a more detailed discussion. For example, features that need more requirements and changes to
be released to production.
6. Provide leadership and guidance to other graphic designers and UI/UX professionals to
provide creative and complex technical graphic design resolutions. (20%)
The Senior Staff Frontend Engineer will need to work with the design system team to build complex
reusable components that can be used in our applications to improve UI consistency, solve UI bugs, and
build high-end UI components that can use cross-team with functionalities. Specific job duties include the
following:
(documentation of UI component examples and how to use it) and setup packages such as
typescript, lint, rollup, jest tests.
components using, and HTML CSS for styling.
issues and solutions.
channel, and engineering meetings.
and list discussion topics for the next meeting through email and slack channel.
7. Participate in system design discussions with Back End Engineers about the Application
Programming Interface, and build REST-based server request/response structures. (5%)
actions.
building the application.
is being sent through the REST-based server request/response structures and new tables
required in the database to maintain more specific data etc.
8. Define necessary data structures which are expected on the client-side to present the
required information in the graphic user interface. (10%)
The client-side architecture requires javaScript data structures to manipulate data received from the
server. In connection with these data structures, this duty involves the following:
Display data on user interface based on the product requirements
Create data structures including objects, arrays, sets, strings, hashmaps, binary trees that are
useful structures to store, filter, change data as required using various javascript functions like
map, filter, reduce, etc.
9. Perform end-to-end testing of the software user interface, add client side unit tests to
improve code coverage and ensure that other parts of the application are stable. (5%)
This duty involves unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests using jest, enzyme, puppeteer testing
frameworks based on javaScript to assure extensive code coverage, eliminate side effects, and maintain
a bug-free environment. The specific tasks include:
test provide an expected output based on user input.
o For example, if creating a function that takes in an array of string, number, boolean ([
name: "Aditya", id: 121, isConfirmed: true]) and returns an object { name: "Aditya
Sharma", age: 33, accountId: 3332323 ...}, it ensures the object with the following
properties mentioned above is returned; otherwise, the test will fail and then must refactor
the main function for the test code to pass.
nothing breaks.
function that executes synchronously.
runs the application in the browser and displays our app working smoothly.
Position requires:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering management, or another engineering
field
• 7 years of software engineering experience
• Willing to accept any reasonable combination of education and experience (M.S. + 5 yrs of
exp); Exp. can be gained concurrently with master’s education.
• Large-scale software engineering exp w/JavaScript frameworks – 4 years
• Exp w/Sketch, Storybook, or Figma – 3 years
• Graphic design & UI experience – 3 years
• Exp. using MySQL to develop relational databases – 4 years
Apply:
Apply online at https://lilt.com/careers or submit resume to Lilt, Greg Vincent, 2200 Powell St., Ste. 900,
Emeryville, CA 94608.
Authorization to work in the US is a precondition of employment.
Our Story
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.
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, plus FSA/DFSA, HSA, and Commuter benefits. 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.
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.
