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