Software Engineer, ML Infra

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

• 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
• Proactively address ML infrastructure issues that may impact production
• Collaborate with ML engineers to build robust model pipelines utilizing the ML infrastructure

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field with 5+ years of experience, or MS/PhD with 3+ years of experience
• Experience delivering production systems that support ML use cases (training or serving)
• Proven track record in building and maintaining large-scale distributed backend systems
• Proficient in Python
• Strong understanding of object-oriented languages such as C++ or Java
• Strong problem solving, teamwork, and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading cross-team projects from design through stable rollout
• Experience iterating on ML models and shipping them to production

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision care
• Top-tier 401(K) plan with company matching
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• FSA and commuter benefits programs
• Team activity budget