AI Engineer

About the Company

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.

Responsibilities

• Own the agentic creative pipeline end-to-end to generate thousands of images and videos daily
• Extend LLM critic and performance-feedback loops from images to include video and copy
• Build automated video pipelines from product briefs to platform-ready vertical ads
• Implement generative model routers to optimize quality and cost per asset
• Develop VLM-based policy checkers to vet creatives against platform advertising standards
• Train and deploy brand-style LoRA or DreamBooth checkpoints using serverless infrastructure
• Create event-triggered ad pipelines for rapid response to real-world events

Requirements

• Deep understanding of diffusion and video models (training LoRAs, optimizing inference, ComfyUI workflows)
• Proficiency with modern model stacks (Flux, SDXL, Veo, Sora, Runway, Kling, etc.)
• Proven ability to treat cost as a first-class design constraint (cost per asset/click/install)
• Experience building and shipping working pipelines from idea to production
• Strong portfolio of public artifacts (fal demos, Replicate models, or ComfyUI workflows)
• Knowledge of Meta and TikTok advertising policies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience advancing VLMs beyond simple SFT or LoRA
• Open-source contributions to ComfyUI, diffusers, or Replicate
• Experience deploying serverless inference at scale (e.g., fal, Replicate, Modal)
• End-to-end experience shipping video products (script to final cut)

Benefits

• Competitive Bay Area compensation and meaningful equity
• Unlimited generative model budget
• 100% health, dental, and vision coverage for employees
• Top-tier 401(K) with company matching
• Paid time off and holidays
• FSA, HSA, and commuter benefits
• Team activity budget