# Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation & AI Applications at News Break

- Company: News Break
- What the company does: NewsBreak is the best local source for news, videos, and information on safety, accidents, sports, business, celebrity updates, stock market trends, and more.
- Company website: https://www.newsbreak.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-07
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsbreak/jobs/4703486006
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/news-break-senior-machine-learning-engineer-recommendation-and-ai-applications/

## About the role

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to help evolve our large-scale recommendation systems and apply AI / LLM technologies to real-world production problems. You will work on core feed, retrieval, and ranking systems serving tens of millions of users, while also participating in AI-driven innovation projects that explore new ways to improve content discovery, personalization, and developer productivity.

## What they're looking for

- Design, build, and iterate on high-throughput, low-latency recommendation systems powering NewsBreak’s core feeds
- Improve retrieval, ranking, and multi-objective optimization to balance engagement, retention, content quality, and business metrics
- Own systems from offline training → online inference → A/B experimentation → metric analysis
- Identify and resolve issues related to data quality, model drift, and system performance in production
- Apply LLMs and foundation models to recommendation-related problems such as content understanding, user intent modeling, and feature generation
- Prototype quickly, validate with experiments, and push successful ideas into production

Tags: Engineering