AI Benchmark Engineer, Native Language Specialist – Chinese
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AI benchmark engineer creating Chinese-language Terminal-Bench tasks for Lilt’s multilingual AI platform. Validating coding agents, verifier scripts, and multilingual software robustness.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and validate Terminal-Bench tasks for multilingual software challenges
- Evaluate coding agents
- Build realistic task environments using datasets and files in Chinese
- Keep benchmark assets in the target language to measure multilingual handling
- Find AI failure points through prompting and translation in the native language
- Support robust reference implementations
- Write reliable, deterministic verifier scripts
- Analyze execution logs and calibrate task difficulty from Easy to Very Hard
- Run standard Terminal-Bench configurations against Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus model tiers
- Participate in a four-layer human quality-control process covering creation, human review, calibration review, and audit
- Work alongside automated LLM-based checks to ensure fairness, grammatical accuracy, and benchmark integrity
Requirements:
- 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 fluency in Chinese, with deep understanding of grammar, register, and phrasing rules
- High English proficiency
- Strong proficiency in Python, standard shell scripting, and data processing
- Extensive experience with Terminal/CLI-based development workflows
- Working familiarity with coding agents
- Deep technical understanding of multilingual text processing pitfalls
- Knowledge of encoding/decoding robustness and Unicode normalization
- Knowledge of locale-dependent conventions, including collation, casing, and non-Gregorian dates
- Knowledge of text I/O, toolchain interoperability, and safe string operations
- For applicable languages, knowledge of bidirectional/RTL handling, font fallbacks, and rendering/typography in UI or artifacts
- Reliable availability and commitment
- Ability to complete accepted tasks on time
- Most tasks require availability of at least 2 hours per day or 15–20 hours per week
- CV must be submitted in English
- Geographic restrictions may apply due to international embargoes or sanctions
Benefits:
- Independent contractor schedule with no fixed hours, check-ins, or micromanaging
- Competitive rates
- Prompt payments
- Access to diverse, innovative projects
- Portfolio and skills development across industries and domains
- Flexible work from anywhere, any time
- Global community of linguists, subject matter experts, and language professionals
- No health insurance, paid time off, or retirement contributions are provided
- Hours are not guaranteed
- Supplemental-income opportunity with fluctuating work availability








