AI Benchmark Engineer | Native Language Specialist - French (Canada) - Remote
LILT (Production)22 hours ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and engineer Terminal-Bench tasks that evaluate coding agents on multilingual software challenges.
- Build 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 quality-control processes.
- Identify and address multilingual text-processing issues involving encoding, Unicode normalization, locale conventions, text I/O, toolchain interoperability, and safe string operations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
- 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/decoding, Unicode normalization, locale-dependent conventions, text I/O, and toolchain interoperability.
- A proven track record at leading technology companies and/or graduation from top-tier engineering universities.
- Reliable availability and commitment to on-time delivery, with most tasks requiring at least 2 hours per day or 10 hours per week.
Benefits
- Flexible remote independent-contractor work with control over schedule and workload.
- Competitive rates and prompt payments.
- Opportunity to contribute to AI and language technology projects and expand a professional portfolio.
- Access to a global community and diverse projects across industries and domains.
- This is a 1099 contractor role with fluctuating availability, no guaranteed hours, no health insurance, paid time off, or retirement contributions, and contractor responsibility for 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.