Staff Machine Learning 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

• 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
• Lead the application of LLMs and foundation models in recommendation and content intelligence
• Champion AI-native development practices and establish standards for AI-driven engineering
• Lead 0–1 AI initiatives from ideation to production rollout and scaling

Requirements

• 8+ years of industry experience building large-scale ML or recommendation systems
• Deep expertise in recommendation systems and applied machine learning in production
• Strong system design skills and ability to influence architecture across teams
• Proven track record of technical leadership and cross-team collaboration

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated success applying LLMs or foundation models to recommendation systems in production
• Experience leading 0 → 1 AI platform or product initiatives
• Passion for improving engineering velocity through AI-assisted development workflows

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