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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, User Signal & Ads

News Break · Bellevue, Washington, United States · On-site

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About News Break

NewsBreak is the best local source for news, videos, and information on safety, accidents, sports, business, celebrity updates, stock market trends, and more.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design and build the data and ML systems that transform raw user signals into production targeting and bidding features. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role that blends ML modeling , large-scale data engineering , and production ML systems .

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent practical experience)
  • 5+ years of industry experience as an ML engineer / applied scientist, building and shipping ML models in production (not just research or offline prototyping)
  • Strong foundation in machine learning: feature engineering, supervised learning, embeddings/representation learning, and offline + online evaluation methodology
  • Proficiency in Python and a solid ML stack (e.g. PyTorch or TensorFlow , scikit-learn, pandas/NumPy)
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale data processing for ML — e.g. Spark , Flink, SQL/Presto/Trino — including building production feature or training-data pipelines
  • Experience taking models from idea to production: training, deployment, monitoring, and iterating based on real metrics and A/B tests
More about this role

Founded in 2015, NewsBreak is the Content Intelligence platform shaping the future content economy. With over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers highly personalized local news and information powered by advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.

Recognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we're proud to be Great Place to Work® certified and home to a dynamic team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges at scale.

Together, we reached unicorn status in 2021, and we remain committed to continuing this high-growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence.

If you’re inspired to dream big, innovate fast, and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you! For more information, visit www.newsbreak.com/about

The User Signal team sits at the heart of our in-house advertising platform. We collect, process, and activate user signals — behavioral events, contextual data, engagement history, and identity signals — and turn them into the features and audiences that power ads targeting,...

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