3 months ago
Base Salary
$120k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Extend the LLM critic and performance-feedback regeneration loop from images to images, video, and copy at thousands of variants per day
- Build a video pipeline that generates scripts, scene plans, b-roll, voiceover, captions, and platform-ready 9:16 ads in under 90 seconds per iteration and under $0.50 per iteration
- Develop a generative model router that selects among models such as Flux, Veo, Sora, Runway, Kling, and Hailuo based on quality and cost
- Build a vision-language policy checker using GPT-4o vision, Gemini, or Claude vision to validate frames and captions against advertising policies
- Train and deploy brand-style LoRA and DreamBooth checkpoints using past CPI-winning ads and compare them against base Flux in production
- Create event-triggered pipelines that rapidly generate localized, platform-specific video variants for Meta and TikTok
- Own the creative side of the agentic growth platform, from initial implementation through ad shipment, performance data, and continuous optimization
Requirements
- Hands-on expertise debugging, training, and optimizing diffusion and video models, including LoRA training and ComfyUI workflow development
- Ability to work across Flux, SDXL, Veo, Sora, Runway, Kling, Hailuo, and related generative model tiers
- Public artifacts such as a fal demo, Replicate model, Civitai upload, public generation thread, or ComfyUI workflow are strongly valued
- Strong creative judgment about what makes an ad engaging in its first three seconds
- Experience treating cost per asset, click, and install as core design constraints
- Knowledge of Meta Advertising Standards and TikTok branded-content rules
- Ability to ship working pipelines from idea through production deployment and performance feedback
- Strong candidates may have pretrained or significantly advanced a VLM, open-sourced ComfyUI or diffusers extensions, deployed serverless inference on fal, Replicate, or Modal at scale, or shipped an end-to-end video product
- Academic research-only backgrounds and brand-side creative backgrounds without engineering depth are not a fit
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision care for employees and families, with 100% employee coverage
- 401(k) plan with company matching
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- FSA, HSA, and commuter benefits programs
- Team activity budget
- Full-time position based in the Bay Area
- Unlimited generative model budget including fal, Veo, Sora, Runway, ElevenLabs, OpenAI image, Anthropic vision, Hedra, and Kling
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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.