NewsBreak

NewsBreak

Software Engineer, ML Infra

Mountain View, California, United States · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$180k-$225kDetected 90 days ago
PythonJavaC++Machine LearningCommunicationProblem Solving

About the role

  • You'll join a small, high-ownership team that ships platform improvements end-to-end-partnering with product and data teams, reducing latency and cost, and shortening the path from an idea to a safely launched model.
  • You'll work across the ML lifecycle: making training faster and more reliable, improving model serving performance, and strengthening our feature/embedding platform so models stay fresh and consistent between offline and online use.
  • We're looking for someone who can take real ownership, finish what's started, and raise the bar on stability and developer experience.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with ML engineers to build robust model pipelines utilizing the ML infrastructure.
  • from design to rollout to post-launch learnings; real autonomy with support.
  • Ownership: from design to rollout to post-launch learnings; real autonomy with support.
  • Experience delivering production systems that support ML use cases (training or serving).
  • Experience leading cross-team projects from design through stable rollout.
  • At NewsBreak, we design our overall rewards package to attract top talents.

Requirements

  • Proficient in Python, with a strong understanding of object-oriented languages such as C++ or Java

Nice to have

  • Experience iterating on ML models and shipping them to production.

Skills

  • Strong problem solving skills with good teamwork and communication skills

Compensation

  • The US base salary range for this full-time position is listed below.
  • Annual Base Pay Range
  • $180,000 - $225,000 USD

Benefits

  • We offer competitive benefits package:
  • Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
  • Paid time off and paid holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • FSA and commuter benefits programs
  • Depending on the position, the role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus and options.
  • Design and develop machine learning infrastructure.
  • Own and enhance core components of the ML infrastructure, including systems for offline and online model training, model pipeline health monitoring, model serving, feature authoring, and feature serving.
  • We're hiring a Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer to help build the backbone that trains, serves, and monitors the models behind our Ads and Recommendations products.
  • Pay may vary based on a number of factors including job-related skills, level, experience, geographic location and relevant education or training.

Company info

  • About NewsBreak
  • Founded in 2015, NewsBreak is the Content Intelligence platform shaping the future content economy.
  • With over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers highly personalized local news and information powered by advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.
  • Recognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we're proud to be Great Place to Work® certified and home to a dynamic team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges at scale.
  • Together, we reached unicorn status in 2021, and we remain committed to continuing this high-growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence.
  • If you're inspired to dream big, innovate fast, and make a difference, we'd love to hear from you!
  • For more information, visit www.newsbreak.com/about
  • we optimize for outcomes over buzzwords, and we value clear thinking, and follow-through.
  • If you like building reliable systems that make ML teams move faster-and you enjoy turning complexity into simple, durable solutions-we'd love to talk.

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