# Senior Machine Learning Engineer, User Signal & Ads 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: Bellevue, Washington, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsbreak/jobs/4711396006
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/news-break-senior-machine-learning-engineer-user-signal-and-ads/

## 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

Tags: Engineering