Local Intent Data Mining Specialist

Responsibilities

• Build query-understanding, user-intent classification, and semantic-search models for local consumer demand
• Design and grow intent taxonomies and interest graphs over local categories and merchants
• Ship LLM-powered features into production for search and recommendations at consumer scale
• Work with embeddings, retrieval, and NLU to connect messy consumer language to local supply
• Define metrics and run experiments that tie intent quality to downstream conversion

Requirements

• 5+ years as an Applied Scientist or ML Engineer on query understanding, intent, semantic search, or NLU
• Production experience shipping models that serve real users
• Hands-on with embeddings, semantic search, intent classification, taxonomy, or interest-graph construction
• Experience bringing LLMs into production systems
• Comfort working at consumer-internet data scale

Preferred Qualifications

• Background at Google Search / Ads quality, Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, DoorDash, Instacart, Amazon Search/Alexa, or Apple
• Built a user-intent taxonomy or interest graph at a consumer internet company
• Consumer-intent or personalization work specifically at a local platform

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.