Technical Support Engineer

Job Description

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; 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 Capital, and Redpoint, we’re building a category-defining company in a $50B+ global translation market being redefined by AI.

Where You’ll Work

Get the best of both worlds at LILT! Dive into dynamic in-office energy 2 days a week, sparking creativity and forging bonds with your awesome team. Then, seamlessly shift gears and crush your to-do list from the comfort of your home base for the rest of the week. It's the perfect harmony of productivity and personal freedom. Want a peek inside? Visit our Careers page!

This position is based out of our San Francisco, CA office, and will be expected to work in the office in a hybrid capacity.

Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment.

What you’ll do

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Technical Support Engineer to join our customer support team. As a Technical Support Engineer for the Lilt platform, you will work directly with our customers and linguists to help them resolve the issues they face while working with the platform and help LILT improve its AI platform. You will be the face of the company externally when discussing solutions and building relationships with our customers and providing valuable feedback internally to our engineering teams to help improve our products and services. You will collaborate closely with our production and customer success teams and leverage your technical abilities to ensure timely delivery of projects to our customers. The role also provides you the opportunity to build, fix, and create tools and features that have a direct impact on both internal and external users that depend on our product every day.

It's a great opportunity to learn a technically complex, customer-oriented product from the inside-out. Every day brings exciting and new challenges!

Responsibilities :

Be a key source of knowledge on the LILT platform and APIs, the underlying web-stack technologies, and industry-standard integration methods and best practices.

Interact regularly with Engineering, Production, and cross-functional management on high-profile technical issues  to the product support team.

Reproduce customer issues, file bug reports, and coordinate the delivery of fixes.

Analyse customer data including log files, stack traces, browser traces and thread dumps.

Be an internal product advocate, track product processes and contribute to the platform feeding back feedback and issues you get back from LILT platform users

Author knowledge base articles and drive internal knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Be prepared to work in a 24x5 shift environment

Who you are :

You are creative, courageous and have strong problem-solving capabilities

You can adapt to change quickly, while dealing with many varied technical support requests and challenges

You are highly technical with an interest in internet technologies and knowledge of technical processes (think SQL / HTML / JavaScript / PHP / Java / Scripting).

You are self-driven, flexible, and have the ability to maintain high levels of productivity with minimal supervision; taking accountability for your work and results delivered.

You’ve had exposure to uncertain situations and show a history of dealing with ambiguity successfully

You make quick informed decisions under pressure and prioritize appropriately based on urgency, necessity and both internal and external requests.

Skills and Experience :

Excellent customer service and problem solving skills

Ability to quickly diagnose, multi-task and resolve customer issues

Must be able to research application database, application code and knowledge base and recreate issues to provide customer solutions

Effectively communicate with customers as required : keeping them informed of incident progress and maintaining records of customer interactions including actions taken - in written and sometimes in a meeting conference call

Must be able to work independently and as a member of a team

STEM degree preferred but not required

Experience with a monitoring tool like Datadog is required

Experience within the localization industry and multiple languages is a plus

Experience in a Technical Support team setting (preferably in enterprise application software support) for more than 2 years

SQL / Relational Databases - minimum 2-5 years

Linux environment and kernel - minimum 2-5 years

Scripting (i.e. Bash, Python, etc.) - minimum 2-3 years

Benefits :

Compensation : At market salary, meaningful equity, 401(k) matching, and flexible time off plus company holidays

Medical Benefits : Employees receive coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance, and more. In addition, LILT pays for basic life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability

Paid parental leave is provided after 6 months.

Monthly lifestyle benefit stipend via the Fringe platform to allow employees to customize benefits to their lifestyle

Our Story

Our founders, Spence and John met at Google working on Google Translate. As researchers at Stanford and Berkeley, they both worked on language technology to make information accessible to everyone. While together at Google, they were amazed to learn that Google Translate wasn’t used for enterprise products and services inside the company.The quality just wasn’t there. So they set out to build something better. LILT was born.

LILT has been a machine learning company since its founding in 2015. At the time, machine translation didn’t meet the quality standard for enterprise translations, so LILT assembled a cutting-edge research team tasked with closing that gap. While meeting customer demand for translation services, LILT has prioritized investments in Large Language Models, human-in-the-loop systems, and now agentic AI.

With AI innovation accelerating and enterprise demand growing, the next phase of LILT’s journey is just beginning.

Our Tech

What sets our platform apart :

Brand-aware AI that learns your voice, tone, and terminology to ensure every translation is accurate and consistent

Agentic AI workflows that automate the entire translation process from content ingestion to quality review to publishing

100+ native integrations with systems like Adobe Experience Manager, Webflow, Salesforce, GitHub, and Google Drive to simplify content translation

Human-in-the-loop reviews via our global network of professional linguists, for high-impact content that requires expert review

LILT in the News

Featured in The Software Report’s Top 100 Software Companies!

LILT makes it onto the Inc. 5000 List.

LILT’s continues to be an intellectual powerhouse, holding numerous patents that help power the most efficient and sophisticated AI and language models in the industry.

Check out all our news on our website.

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At LILT, we are committed to a fair, inclusive, and transparent hiring process. As part of our recruitment efforts, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) and automated tools to assist in the evaluation of applications, including résumé screening, assessment scoring, and interview analysis. These tools are designed to support human decision-making and help us identify qualified candidates efficiently and objectively. All final hiring decisions are made by people. If you have any concerns, require accommodations, or would like to opt-out of the use of AI in our hiring process, please let us know at recruiting@lilt.com.

LILT is an equal opportunity employer. We extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to an individual’s race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic characteristics, veteran or marital status, pregnancy, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state or federal laws. We are committed to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices.

Compensation Range : $110K - $115K