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NewsBreak

Runs a personalized local news app for US readers

AI Growth Intelligence Engineer New Grad

Applied Machine LearningConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMountain View, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, and recent-graduate status or up to approximately two years of experience.
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and basic system design.
  • Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, or Go, and working knowledge of SQL.
  • Coursework, academic projects, or internship experience involving data pipelines, backend services, or applied software systems.
  • A basic understanding of A/B testing and experimental design principles.

Responsibilities

  • Build instrumentation and monitoring systems to track performance signals, including load times, stream quality, and error rates, across web, app, and live-stream products.
  • Contribute to backend services and dashboards that track engagement and retention metrics, including session length, scroll depth, return rate, and drop-off points.
  • Build tools to surface friction in the user journey and work with product and engineering teams to ship fixes.
  • Support the experimentation infrastructure used to test product changes intended to improve retention.
  • Contribute to recommendation algorithms and services that surface relevant content to users under the guidance of senior engineers.
  • Build data infrastructure, including feature pipelines, training datasets, and feedback loops, to keep recommendation models fresh and accurate and serve them in production with low latency.
  • Instrument personalization systems to measure impact on session time, click-through rates, and long-term retention.
  • Partner with content and product teams to integrate recommendation outputs into intuitive, performant user experiences.
  • Build and maintain components of data pipelines and services that process large-scale advertising, user-event, and engagement data.
  • Write clean, well-tested code in SQL, Python, PySpark, or similar technologies to transform raw data into reliable, analysis-ready datasets and APIs, with code-review support from senior team members.
  • Contribute to data architecture for ad-tech integrations, paywall flows, and subscription checkout, helping keep these monetization surfaces instrumented, reliable, fast, and resilient.
  • Build automated checks to monitor data quality and flag data-integrity issues.
  • Partner with platform and engineering teams to keep systems scalable, observable, and well documented.
  • Support engineering for the advertising sales commission-calculation system, focusing on accuracy, reliability, and auditability, with a senior engineer owning overall design.
  • Build tools supporting sales quota-setting in collaboration with senior engineers and Finance partners who own the underlying business logic.
  • Contribute to simulation tools that model commission payout scenarios and the cost and incentive effects of quota and compensation-plan changes.
  • Work with product, marketing, and sales partners to understand tooling needs and help ship solutions.
  • Build alerts to surface trends and anomalies in advertising performance.
  • Automate recurring operational reporting to free up team capacity.

Desired Qualifications

  • Exposure to distributed data-processing concepts such as Spark, Hive, or similar technologies.

About the Company

NewsBreak

Runs a personalized local news app for US readers

NewsBreak runs a free app and website that gather local and national news for readers across the United States and sort it by ZIP code and by each reader's interests. In 2022, it launched a national network of independent local writers to cover communities that get little attention from traditional media. Its software pulls articles from local outlets, national publishers, and its own contributors into a single feed, and the app sends nearby alerts about crime, weather, and traffic. NewsBreak makes money by selling ads, including to local businesses, and shares ad revenue with partner publishers. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Series C
Total funding
$139.8M
Headquarters
Mountain View, CA
Founded
2015

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