Newsbreak
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation & AI Applications
Mountain View, California, United States. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will design, build, and iterate on high-throughput, low-latency recommendation systems. You will also apply LLMs and foundation models to recommendation-related problems and contribute to 0-1 AI-powered projects.
What you will do
- Design, build, and iterate on high-throughput, low-latency recommendation systems.
- Improve retrieval, ranking, and multi-objective optimization.
- Own systems from offline training to online inference, A/B experimentation, and metric analysis.
- Identify and resolve issues related to data quality, model drift, and system performance.
- Apply LLMs and foundation models to content understanding, user intent modeling, and feature generation.
- Prototype, validate with experiments, and push successful ideas into production.
- Embrace AI-assisted development workflows.
- Contribute to 0-1 AI-powered projects from exploration to MVP and production.
Required qualifications
- 3 + years of industry experience building machine learning or recommendation systems in production.
- Strong understanding of recommendation system fundamentals (ranking, embeddings, user/item modeling, experimentation).
- Strong coding skills with Python / Java / Scala.
- Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Experience working with large-scale data and ML systems (e.g., Spark, distributed training, real-time inference).
- Ability to own features end-to-end and deliver measurable business impact.
Nice to have
- Production experience applying AI or LLMs to recommendation systems.
- Experience contributing to 0 → 1 AI or ML-driven products.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family (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 NewsBreak, Nearby AI, and NDot AI.