# Senior Recommendation Engineer 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
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsbreak/jobs/4712875006
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/news-break-senior-recommendation-engineer/

## About the role

Most recommendation systems optimize for the next click. Ours has to support an infrequent, expensive, high-consequence household decision, where the right recommendation is sometimes to do nothing. You will build recommendation and matching across three surfaces: which content to surface to which user and when in a large content feed; an event-triggered engagement system that responds to changes in a user's situation; and two-sided matching between customers and service professionals under explicit fairness...

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of machine-learning or software engineering, including 3+ years shipping recommendation or ranking systems in production
- Built and operated a ranking system at consumer scale, millions of users, including candidate generation, ranking, and monitoring
- Substantial online experimentation experience on ranking changes, and can explain at least one test that failed and why
- Deployed an uplift, causal, or counterfactual model in production, or can give a rigorous account of why click-based objectives are wrong for rare, high-cost decisions
- Strong Python plus at least one of Java, Scala, or Go, production experience with feature stores and streaming pipelines
- Ability to explain modeling decisions to product and business stakeholders and to defend experimental design under commercial pressure

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