2 months ago
Base Salary
$230k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design of next-generation recommendation system architectures at scale
- Drive best practices for model lifecycle management, experimentation, and system reliability
- Align technical strategy with product, infrastructure, and data teams
- Own initiatives involving retrieval, ranking, re-ranking, and multi-objective optimization
- Lead the application of LLMs and foundation models in recommendation, content intelligence, and user modeling
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and guide their adoption into production systems
- Establish standards and shared tooling for AI-driven engineering
- Lead 0-to-1 AI initiatives from ideation and technical validation through production rollout and scaling
- Ensure prototypes become maintainable, scalable platforms
- Mentor others and provide technical leadership across teams
Requirements
- At least 8 years of industry experience building large-scale machine learning or recommendation systems
- Deep expertise in recommendation systems and applied machine learning in production environments
- Strong system design skills and the ability to influence architecture across teams
- Proven technical leadership and cross-team collaboration experience
- Experience applying LLMs or foundation models to recommendation or content systems in production is a plus
- Experience leading 0-to-1 AI platform or product initiatives is a plus
- Interest in improving engineering velocity through AI-assisted development workflows is a plus
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision care for employees and their families
- 401(k) plan with company matching
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- FSA and commuter benefits programs
- Team activity budget
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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.