18 days ago
Mountain View, CA, USAIntern
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$30 - $70/yr
Responsibilities
- Build an end-to-end personalized provider-recommendation pipeline with engineers and product managers.
- Use LLMs to extract service requirements, preferences, and constraints from conversations, profiles, and context.
- Develop provider retrieval and ranking using semantic search, recommendation algorithms, and provider features.
- Build backstage agent workflows connecting intent understanding, retrieval, provider comparison, and recommendation decisions.
- Integrate business information, reviews, credentials, and service coverage through entity matching and multi-source knowledge integration.
- Create evaluation datasets, analyze failure cases and user feedback, and improve quality, reliability, and latency.
- Ship and iterate on products from design through launch.
Requirements
- Pursuing a bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, AI, or a related field.
- Proficiency in Python or Java with solid data structures and algorithms knowledge.
- Hands-on experience developing LLM applications or agents, including RAG, agent workflows, or evaluation harnesses.
- Understanding of search, recommendation, or machine-learning fundamentals.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with initiative to own results.
- Preferred experience with embeddings, hybrid search, reranking, learning to rank, or personalized matching.
- Preferred experience with Elasticsearch, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, vector databases, or data pipelines.
- Shipped products, open-source contributions, independent projects, research, and personal projects are valued.
Benefits
- Full-time position with an annual base pay range of $30—$70 USD.
- The role may also be eligible for a discretionary bonus and options depending on the position.
Tech Stack
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About NewsBreak
NewsBreak builds a local-news aggregation and discovery platform for U.S. consumers on web and mobile, powered by recommendation systems and NLP. It partners with publishers and independent creators and monetizes primarily through advertising for local and national businesses. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the platform serves over 40 million monthly active users and aggregates content from more than 10,000 sources.