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About LILT AI is changing how the world communicates — and LILT is leading that transformation. We're on a mission to make the world's information accessible to everyone , regardless of the language they speak. We use cutting-edge AI, machine translation, and human-in-the-loop expertise to translate content faster, more accurately, and more cost-effectively without compromising on brand, voice, or quality. At LILT, we empower our teammates with leading tools, global collaboration, and growth opportunities to do their best work. Our company virtues— Work together, win together; Find a way or make one; Dance in the customer's shoes; Quicker than they expect; Quality is Job 1 —guide everything we do. We are trusted by Intel Corporation , Canva , the United States Department of Defense , the United States Air Force , ASICS , and hundreds of global Enterprises. Backed by Sequoia, Intel Capita
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- Source: LILT's official careers site (via Ashby) · last confirmed on the source 3 Nov 2026
- Posted 2 Oct 2026
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This position requires US citizenship and residence in the United States. Preferred locations are Washington, D.C.; Boston, MA; and Indianapolis, IN. What You'll Do Build and maintain backend services for the real-time translation pipeline: audio ingestion, diarization hookups, streaming ASR/MT orchestration, and result fan-out to every configured meeting language Implement the event-driven routing logic that flags low-confidence segments and routes them to the correct on-call interpreter by language Build APIs and services backing the bot/agent participant and meeting side panel that deliver translation into the host meeting platform, with guidance from senior engineers Contribute to the interpreter correction and broadcast system — ensuring corrections are isolated to the correct language and broadcast to all participants in real time Write and maintain automated tests (unit, integration, e2e) and contribute to CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) for new backend services Instrument services for observability — logging, metrics, tracing — to support debugging of latency-sensitive, multi-party sessions Partner with frontend/fullstack engineers on the Create team to define clean API co
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LILT
Streamline global translation with AI. Connect systems, reduce costs, and secure multilingual content with enterprise-grade workflows.
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