Applied AI Engineer, Advertising Agents (New Grad)

The role

You will help build an AI-driven intelligent account hosting and optimization platform. You will develop AI advertising expert systems to diagnose accounts and auto-tune delivery.

What you will do

• Support the design and implementation of the AI Account Manager System.
• Help build intelligent diagnosis and strategy recommendation models.
• Use LLMs to generate actionable, auditable account-level tuning strategies.
• Build and maintain observability, dry-run safeguards, and evaluation pipelines.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, ad delivery algorithm teams, and product managers.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or related fields (recently completed or completing within the next 6 months).
• Solid software-engineering fundamentals.
• Ability to write clean, testable code.
• Familiarity with asynchronous/concurrent programming and typed/data-modeled code.
• Foundational understanding of LLMs, RAG, tool-use, and agent orchestration concepts.
• Some hands-on experience with structured/schema-validated LLM outputs and modern model APIs.
• Familiarity with REST/API integration.
• Solid grounding in machine learning and AI fundamentals.
• Strong analytical skills.

Nice to have

• Relevant internships, research, coursework, or personal projects involving LLMs, agents, or ML.
• Exposure to building or experimenting with agentic systems.
• Exposure to deployment tools such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Internship or research experience involving large language models, agent-based systems, or recommendation/ads systems.
• Exposure to advertising or recommendation system concepts and metrics (CPA, ROAS, CVR, CTR, conversions).
• Personal or academic projects demonstrating initiative in building AI agents or automation tools.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision care (100% coverage for employee)
• Top-tier 401(K) plan with company matching
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• FSA, HSA and commuter benefits programs
• Team activity budget

About the company

NewsBreak is a local life and news platform with more than 40 million monthly users. The company includes platforms like NewsBreak, Nearby AI, and NDot AI.