LILT in the News
We were named to The Software Report’s fifth annual list of Software Companies! Click here to learn more and see the full list. Lilt is proud to announce that our co-founder, John Denero along with our employees- Joern Wuebker and Thomas Zenkel just received approval for the issuance of U.S. Patent 12,277,402 for their innovative end-to-end neural word alignment process! This patent represents a significant advancement in machine translation technology that allows for more accurate preservation of formatting when translating content between languages. Congratulations John, Joe and Thomas!
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.
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 located globally in San Francisco, Indianapolis, London, and Berlin with hubs located in Washington D.C., New York City, and Boston. You can learn more about us and what it’s like to work here on our Careers page!
LILT AI was recently named one of the Top 100 Software Companies in 2025!
We’re honored to be recognized by The Software Report as one of the most impactful software companies in the world, ranking #52 on their Top 100 list. LILT is more than a translation solution—it’s a strategic multiplier for global growth, enabling enterprises to unlock new markets, accelerate go-to-market strategies, and deliver seamless multilingual experiences at scale. We empower enterprises to create, translate, and summarize content across text, video, and speech in over 100 languages—all seamlessly integrated with 100+ business systems. Proud to be trusted by brands like 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
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.
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.