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 thefollowing tasks, dividing time according to the approximate percentages set out below.1. Execute graphic design tasks involve changing/adding user interface components on thedashboard, designing, and implementing a customized user interface for translators.(25%)The application user interface goes through constant change and enhancements based on businessrequirements 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 formatsto 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 moredynamic 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 guideengineers to understand the technical needs and develop the product. (10%)The user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design process involves utilizing creative and technicalproblem-solving and storytelling skills.
Areas of focus incorporate content, visual design anddevelopment, information architecture, branding, and customer/technical support. This duty entails thefollowing more specific tasks:
Consulting with program managers and lead designers to understand their goals and research
results
Conducting usability testing and collect data by selecting a few customers that identify existing UI
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 withother engineers.3. Research graphic design industry trends and best user-centered design practices usingPhotoshop, CSS 3, SASS framework along with CSS media queries for desktop and mobilesoftware responsiveness. (10%)This task requires the Senior Staff Frontend Engineer to continually keeping themselves and theirproduct, Design, and engineering team updated with the latest design changes and trends in industrystandards.
More specifically, this includes:
Continuously reviewing accessibility standards and guidelines which must meet Section 508
regulations
Continuously reviewing and developing cutting-edge user interface designs that give users clear
direction for navigation
Developing better solutions to simplify complex user interaction with UI to make customers daily
tasks easier
Designing mocks based on different screen resolutions like desktops, tablets, and mobiles for
better readability and proper adjustment of UI content and elements (cards, dropdowns, modals,sidebar navigation).
Once the mock designs are finished, building UI to test responsiveness on the screen using
HTML, CSS 3, media queries, JSS, Sass.
Correcting any UI defects based on the screen resolution.
4. Collaborate with graphic designers and engineers with creative and technical problemsand work with software Front End, Back End, Quality Analysts, and Product Managers toparticipate in collecting software user interface and user experience graphic designrequirements. Also, work with Graphic Designers, Product Managers, Front End, BackEnd, 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 Engineerposition because it involves evaluating high-level requirements from the product team by asking the rightquestions, dividing them into engineering tasks, updating progress, and delivering features before the duedate.
These duties include:
Requirements gathering in order to document all of the end product's functionalities after a
discussion with business stakeholders.
Conducting meetings to discuss project scope and estimate efforts by providing points that
indicate the duration taken to finish the work.
If any feature functionality is out of scope or there are questions regarding ambiguity and code
architecture, discussing it during a detailed requirement gathering phase.
Dividing these requirements into technical sub tasks and for development implementation.
5. Participate in Agile software methodologies for graphic design, including participating indaily standup meetings to report daily status and to bring up any matters preventingprogress. (5%)This task requires constant communication between designers, engineers and program managers onproduct feature updates to deliver features before deadlines, keep everyone on the same page andaddress any issues that may arise during the product development cycle. More specifically, this dutyentails the following:
Participate in daily stand-up meetings with engineers, designers, and program managers to
discuss the work status of the present and previous day.
Discuss work blockers, concerns regarding current product feature development and brainstorm
ideas to resolve them. For example, code deployment build failures on Github (central repositoryfor developers to merge all code) block the new features from getting merged in production.
Discuss new ideas for product features and provide inputs to the program manager to enhance
the current product features such as performance and visual improvements of the application.
Schedule meetings with engineers, designers, and managers to discuss specific topics that need
a more detailed discussion. For example, features that need more requirements and changes tobe released to production.6. Provide leadership and guidance to other graphic designers and UI/UX professionals toprovide creative and complex technical graphic design resolutions. (20%)The Senior Staff Frontend Engineer will need to work with the design system team to build complexreusable components that can be used in our applications to improve UI consistency, solve UI bugs, andbuild high-end UI components that can use cross-team with functionalities.
Specific job duties include thefollowing:
Implementing a GIT repository where the design system lives along with StoryBook
(documentation of UI component examples and how to use it) and setup packages such astypescript, lint, rollup, jest tests.
Developing components using React (javaScript) with storybook examples, test code for the
components using, and HTML CSS for styling.
Conducting meetings with the manager, designers, and engineers to discuss design system
issues and solutions.
Identifying action items to resolve the above problems and update the team through email, slack
channel, and engineering meetings.
Sending weekly updates to product and engineering teams on new components and their usage
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 ApplicationProgramming Interface, and build REST-based server request/response structures. (5%)
Conduct meetings with engineers and discuss how to set up tables and make API calls to perform
actions.
Build charts and document technical discussions for other engineers to understand the process of
building the application.
Constantly communicate with engineers for design changes for example modification in data that
is being sent through the REST-based server request/response structures and new tablesrequired in the database to maintain more specific data etc.8. Define necessary data structures which are expected on the client-side to present therequired information in the graphic user interface. (10%)The client-side architecture requires javaScript data structures to manipulate data received from theserver. 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 likemap, filter, reduce, etc.9. Perform end-to-end testing of the software user interface, add client side unit tests toimprove 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 testingframeworks based on javaScript to assure extensive code coverage, eliminate side effects, and maintaina bug-free environment.
The specific tasks include:
Writing unit and integration test codes for javascript functions, design system UI components to
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: "AdityaSharma", age: 33, accountId: 3332323 ...}, it ensures the object with the followingproperties mentioned above is returned; otherwise, the test will fail and then must refactorthe main function for the test code to pass.
Writing end to end tests that involve testing navigation to different page paths and make sure
nothing breaks.
Writing code in JavaScript by writing steps in a sequence while each step is connected to a
function that executes synchronously.
Using the Puppeteer plugin to test our application, where the headless browser automatically
runs the application in the browser and displays our app working smoothly.Position requires:• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering management, or another engineeringfield• 7 years of software engineering experience• Willing to accept any reasonable combination of education and experience (M.S. + 5 yrs ofexp); 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 yearsApply: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.
