AI Benchmark Engineer | Native Language Specialist - French (France) - Remote
LILT (Production)21 hours ago
Remote, FranceSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and engineer high-signal Terminal-Bench tasks for evaluating coding agents in multilingual software environments.
- Create realistic French-language datasets, files, prompts, and task environments without relying on English translations.
- Develop reference implementations and deterministic verifier scripts, using rubric-based judging only when necessary.
- Analyze execution logs and calibrate task difficulty from Easy to Very Hard across Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus model tiers.
- Participate in creation, human review, calibration review, audit, and automated LLM-based quality-control processes.
- Identify multilingual software failure points involving encoding, Unicode normalization, locale behavior, text I/O, interoperability, and safe string operations.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of industry software engineering experience.
- Proven track record at leading technology companies and/or graduation from top-tier engineering universities.
- Native or near-native French fluency with deep knowledge of grammar, register, and phrasing, plus high English proficiency.
- Strong proficiency in Python, standard shell scripting, and data processing.
- Extensive experience with Terminal/CLI-based development workflows and familiarity with coding agents.
- Deep technical understanding of multilingual text-processing pitfalls, including encoding and decoding, Unicode normalization, locale-dependent conventions, text I/O, toolchain interoperability, and safe string operations.
- For applicable languages, familiarity with bidirectional or RTL handling, font fallbacks, and rendering or typography in user interfaces or artifacts.
- Reliable availability and commitment to on-time delivery, with most tasks requiring at least 2 hours per day or 10 hours per week.
Benefits
- Remote, flexible independent-contractor work with control over schedule and workload.
- Competitive rates and prompt payments.
- Access to diverse AI and language-technology projects that can expand professional experience and portfolio.
- Participation in a global community of linguists, subject-matter experts, and language professionals.
- Work availability fluctuates with project demand, hours are not guaranteed, and the role is not intended as a full-time or primary-income position.
- The 1099 contractor arrangement does not include health insurance, paid time off, or retirement contributions; contractors are responsible for their own taxes.
- Geographic restrictions may apply for regions subject to international embargoes or sanctions.
About LILT (Production)
LILT builds an enterprise translation and localization platform that combines AI models with human linguists to produce multilingual content for businesses and governments. The company also provides data labeling and evaluation services for AI developers, plus managed translation services integrated with common content and support tools. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and works with global organizations that need at-scale, domain-specific localization.