NewsBreak
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation & AI Applications
Mountain View, California, USA · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$195k-$230kDetected 43 days ago
PythonJavaScalaMachine LearningPyTorchSparkLLMsA/B Testing
About the role
- This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy strong individual ownership, hands-on development, and translating ideas into reliable systems.
- Improve retrieval, ranking, and multi-objective optimization to balance engagement, retention, content quality, and business metrics.
- Identify and resolve issues related to data quality, model drift, and system performance in production.
Responsibilities
- At NewsBreak, we design our overall rewards package to attract top talents.
- 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.
- 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.
- What You'll Work On Large-Scale Recommendation Systems Design, build, and iterate on high-throughput, low-latency recommendation systems powering NewsBreak's core feeds.
- Own systems from offline training online inference A/B experimentation metric analysis.
- Prototype quickly, validate with experiments, and push successful ideas into production.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of recommendation system fundamentals (ranking, embeddings, user/item modeling, experimentation)..
- Strong coding skills with Python / Java / Scala, and experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow..
- Experience working with large-scale data and ML systems (e.g., Spark, distributed training, real-time inference)..
Nice to have
- Experience contributing to 0 1 AI or ML-driven products. - Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
Compensation
- $195k-$230k
Benefits
- 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.
- If you're inspired to dream big, innovate fast, and make a difference, we'd love to hear from you!
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