AI Benchmark Engineer | Native Language Specialist - French (Belgium) - Remote
LILT (Production)21 hours ago
Remote, BelgiumSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and engineer high-signal Terminal-Bench tasks for evaluating coding agents on multilingual software challenges.
- Build realistic task environments, datasets, and files in French while preserving the target language throughout the assets.
- Develop prompts, reference implementations, and reliable deterministic verifier scripts.
- 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.
- Assess multilingual text-processing behavior involving encoding, Unicode normalization, locale conventions, text I/O, and toolchain interoperability.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of industry experience in software engineering.
- 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 or CLI-based development workflows and familiarity with coding agents.
- Deep technical understanding of encoding and decoding robustness, 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.
- Ability to commit to reliable delivery; most tasks require at least 2 hours per day or 10 hours per week.
Benefits
- Remote, flexible independent-contractor work with no fixed hours or micromanagement.
- Competitive rates and prompt payments.
- Access to diverse projects, an international expert community, and opportunities to expand technical and language expertise.
- This is a 1099 contractor role with fluctuating availability, no guaranteed hours, and no health insurance, paid time off, or retirement contributions.
- Contractors are responsible for their own tax obligations, and geographic restrictions may apply in 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.