NewsBreak

NewsBreak

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation & AI Platform

Mountain View, California, United States · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$230k-$300kDetected 91 days ago
Machine LearningLLMsA/B TestingLeadershipMentoring

About the role

  • Champion AI-native development practices, including LLM-assisted coding, experimentation, and analysis.
  • Help establish standards and shared tooling for AI-driven engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design of next-generation recommendation system architectures at scale.
  • Drive best practices for model lifecycle management, experimentation, and system reliability.
  • Partner with product, infra, and data teams to align technical strategy with business goals.
  • Own complex initiatives across retrieval, ranking, re-ranking, and multi-objective optimization.
  • At NewsBreak, we design our overall rewards package to attract top talents.

Nice to have

  • Experience leading 0 → 1 AI platform or product initiatives. - Passion for improving engineering velocity through AI-assisted development workflows.

Skills

  • Evaluate emerging AI technologies and guide their adoption into production systems.

Compensation

  • The US base salary range for this full-time position is listed below.
  • Annual Base Pay Range
  • $230,000 - $300,000 USD

Benefits

  • We offer a 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.
  • 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 are seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to provide technical leadership for our recommendation systems and AI initiatives.

This listing is sourced directly from NewsBreak's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.