Senior AEM Engineer

LILT•Washington D.C., DC

About The Position

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. LILT's AEM Connector enables enterprise customers to push and pull AEM content — Sites pages, Content Fragments, Assets, and Tags — directly through Lilt's translation platform, supporting both Instant Translate and Verified Translation workflows. Every customer who runs AEM has a unique content topology, and making the connector work reliably across that diversity is a real engineering challenge. You will own the connector end-to-end: architecture, product roadmap, and the hands-on technical advisory work that ensures enterprise deployments succeed in the field. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role on a product with a growing customer base that includes some of the world's largest global brands. As the senior engineer on the AEM Connector, you will drive the long-term technical strategy for the connector while working directly with enterprise customers — configuring implementations, diagnosing production issues, and establishing the best practices that define how Lilt and AEM work together. You will partner with Solutions and Account teams, train internal staff, and build the validation and guard logic that prevents customer-specific content structure quirks from becoming production incidents. You will ship new capabilities, validate, and define the canonical site structures the connector explicitly supports.

Requirements

5+ years of professional AEM development on AEM Cloud Service (AEMaaCS), with a track record of owning a production AEM implementation end-to-end — architecture, implementation, deployment, and field reliability
Deep knowledge of AEM content architecture: JCR/Sling resource model, OSGi service components, AEM Sites, DAM, and Content Fragments
Java/OSGi bundle authoring: services, schedulers, Sling jobs, event listeners, servlets, and Sling Models
Deep understanding of AEM Translation Integration Framework: language master setup, language copies, Translation Projects, Translation Jobs, and MSM/Live Copy inheritance hierarchies
Fluency in AEM content topology nuances — including where standard Adobe guidance does not apply (e.g., Experience Fragments outside language master hierarchies, non-page trunk nodes, customer-specific site structures that would never appear in Adobe's sample sites)
Ability to debug JCR node type conflicts and content tree issues across diverse customer environments
Customer-facing technical experience: configuring AEM environments, leading implementation workshops, writing best-practices documentation, and guiding enterprise rollouts
Comfort reasoning about complex multilingual content topologies — multi-region, multi-language-copy sites, shared Live Copy inheritance

Nice To Haves

Prior AEM connector or TMS connector development (Sling connector framework, Translation API integration, XLIFF handling)
Content Fragments, Experience Fragments, and Headless AEM (GraphQL / Content Services)
OSGi configuration management — including config file authoring, Felix console operations, and Repoinit scripting
AEM Cloud Manager, RDE (Rapid Development Environments), and package deployment lifecycle
Experience navigating plugin interplay in complex AEM environments where multiple third-party extensions are installed
Adobe I/O Events or AEM Eventing for reactive/webhook-based integration patterns
AEM security model: service users, CUGs, replication agents, and permission-aware content access
Bonus Prior experience building or maintaining a packaged AEM extension or AEM archetype-based product
Familiarity with AEM Launches (content fork/stage/merge workflows) and how they interact with translation pipelines
Familiarity with localization/TMS workflows: XLIFF, Translation Memory, MT vs. human translation pipelines
AEM certifications (Developer or Architect)
Experience with Cypress-based E2E testing in an AEM environment

Responsibilities

Own the connector architecture and long-term product roadmap for the Lilt AEM Connector
Define and maintain the canonical AEM site structures the connector explicitly supports — and advise customers on how their specific topology maps to those structures (or where it diverges)
Guide customers through AEM Translation Integration Framework setup: language masters, language copies, MSM/Live Copy topology, Experience Fragment hierarchies, and cloud configurations relative to Lilt's connector
Work directly with enterprise customers to capture feature requirements, validate configurations, and establish long-term best practices
Define and document canonical patterns for translation project creation, Content Fragment localization, DAM asset translation, and auto-archiving workflows
Partner with Solutions and Account teams for pre-sales technical evaluation, onboarding, and escalation triage
Train and enable internal teams on connector capabilities, OSGi configuration options, and troubleshooting patterns
Deliver new connector capabilities through the full cycle: CI (GitHub Actions), E2E Cypress tests, package deployment via Cloud Manager and RDE