Dow Jones

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search

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3 months ago
Barcelona, SpainSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate search systems and services powering content discovery and user engagement.
  • Develop and improve machine learning models across the personalization stack, from candidate generation through final ranking.
  • Improve candidate retrieval using embeddings, two-tower architectures, and user and content signals.
  • Use experimentation and A/B testing to measure model and feature impact.
  • Leverage large language models to improve content understanding and feature extraction.
  • Optimize systems for performance, latency, and scalability in high-traffic environments.
  • Contribute to engineering practices including testing, observability, and CI/CD.
  • Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and analysts to create scalable technical solutions.

Requirements

  • 2–4 years of industry experience applying machine learning methods, particularly in recommender systems, search, ranking, or personalization.
  • Strong proficiency in Python for production machine learning systems.
  • Experience with A/B testing and experimentation frameworks.
  • Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure and containerized environments.
  • Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases.
  • Degree in computer science, machine learning, or statistics, or equivalent work experience.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare plans for the employee and family, paid by Dow Jones.
  • 30 days of paid holidays per year.
  • Hybrid position based in Barcelona.
  • Option to work remotely for three months per year and one week remotely per quarter.
  • Meal benefit of €171 per month in addition to salary.
  • Retirement plan with employer contributions and matching up to the stated limits.
  • Life insurance, wellbeing resources, ClassPass, Spring Health, family care benefits, caregiving support, Hone and LinkedIn Learning courses, and an employee referral program.
Dow Jones

About Dow Jones

10,000+ employees

Dow Jones provides news, market data, and risk/compliance information for consumers and enterprises through brands and platforms such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Factiva, OPIS, and Dow Jones Risk & Compliance. Its business model spans consumer subscriptions, enterprise licensing, advertising, and data services used by financial institutions, corporations, and investors. Founded in 1882 and headquartered in New York, it is a subsidiary of News Corp.

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