AI Benchmark Engineer, Native Language Specialist – Chinese

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AI benchmark engineer building Chinese-language Terminal-Bench tasks for Lilt’s multilingual AI platform. Validating coding agents, reference implementations, and deterministic verifiers.

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 (Taiwan)
  • Find AI failure points through prompting and translation in the native language
  • Develop 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 (Taiwan), with deep understanding of grammar, register, and phrasing rules
  • High English proficiency
  • Strong proficiency in Python
  • Strong proficiency in standard shell scripting
  • Strong proficiency in data processing
  • Extensive experience with Terminal/CLI-based development workflows
  • Working familiarity with coding agents
  • Deep technical understanding of multilingual text processing pitfalls
  • Experience with encoding/decoding robustness and Unicode normalization
  • Experience with locale-dependent conventions, including collation, casing, and non-Gregorian dates
  • Experience with text I/O, toolchain interoperability, and safe string operations
  • Updated CV in English
  • Successful completion of a GenAI assessment
  • Reliable availability and commitment; most tasks require a minimum of 2 hours per day or 15–20 hours per week
  • Contractors must not be located in regions subject to international embargoes or sanctions
  • Contractors are responsible for their own tax obligations

Benefits:

  • Flexible 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
  • 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 for independent 1099 contractors