Staff Fullstack Engineer - Internal Tools

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

LILT is seeking a capable engineer to own and evolve internal platforms that power our AI benchmarking and delivery for global customers.

You will shape architecture, data pipelines, and reliable tooling used by delivery, operations and engineering teams.

This high-visibility role directly enables on-time, high-quality work for prominent AI labs and partner organizations.

Job description

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 https://www.linkedin.com/company/intel-corporation/, Canva https://www.linkedin.com/company/canva/, the United States Department of Defense https://www.linkedin.com/company/deptofdefense/, the United States Air Force https://www.linkedin.com/company/united-states-air-force/, ASICS https://www.linkedin.com/company/asics/, and hundreds of global Enterprises. Backed by Sequoia, Intel Capital, and Redpoint, we're building a category-defining company in a $50B+ global translation market being redefined by AI.

As part of LILT's Internal Tools group, you will build and run the tools that LILT's own delivery, contributor-ops, and engineering teams rely on to operate LILT's Applied AI (AAI) benchmarking business - which builds and delivers multilingual benchmarks and evaluation data to frontier AI labs using LILT's global network of subject-matter experts. As the AAI business grows, expect the scope of these platforms to grow in parallel. This platform sits directly on the critical path of paid customer deliverables with real SLAs, maintained by a small, high-leverage engineering team that produces reliable, production-ready tooling. You will own significant surface area across both end-to-end: architecture, data-pipeline design, and the hands-on engineering that keeps this infrastructure reliable. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role: the reliability and craft you bring directly enables on-time, high-quality delivery for some of the most prominent AI labs in the world.

In this role, you will drive the long-term technical strategy for internal platforms while working directly with the delivery, ops, and engineering teams across the business who depend on them daily. This team ships cross-service automation in careful stages - advisory first, then assistive, only later decision-relevant, always with a human fallback - and you'll be expected to hold that same bar as you extend these systems. You will partner with a small existing team to raise the engineering bar across two very different runtimes, set technical direction, and make the calls that determine how this infrastructure scales as the business grows.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Partner with the benchmarking business's researchers and TPMs to translate new benchmark and data-quality requirements into scoped technical designs
• Own the internal