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NewsBreak

Runs a personalized local news app for US readers

Applied AI Engineer New Grad - Advertising Agents

AI Application EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMountain View, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree, recently completed or expected to be completed within the next 6 months, in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related field.
  • No professional work experience is required; relevant internships, research, coursework, or personal projects involving large language models, agents, or machine learning are advantageous.
  • Exposure to building or experimenting with agentic systems through coursework, hackathons, internships, or personal projects.
  • Ability to write clean, testable code, with familiarity in asynchronous or concurrent programming and typed or data-modeled code.
  • Foundational understanding of large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, and agent orchestration concepts, including MCP-style tool ecosystems, gained through coursework, projects, or self-study.
  • Some hands-on experience with structured or schema-validated large language model outputs and modern model application programming interfaces.
  • Solid grounding in machine learning and artificial intelligence fundamentals.

Responsibilities

  • Support the design and implementation of components of the in-house AI Account Manager system, including automated hosting, optimization scheduling, and monitoring across concurrently running advertiser accounts.
  • Work with performance data and delivery history to help identify account health signals and delivery pain points, such as inability to scale volume, sudden drops in return on investment, or budget capping.
  • Assist in using large language models to generate actionable, auditable account-level tuning strategies.
  • Help build and maintain observability, dry-run safeguards, and offline and online evaluation pipelines to measure optimization quality and catch regressions before they reach live spend.
  • Work closely with senior engineers, the platform-side ad delivery algorithm team, and product managers to understand how AI account management capabilities translate into commercial impact.

Desired Qualifications

  • Familiarity with REST or application programming interface integration.
  • Exposure to deployment tools such as Docker or Kubernetes.
  • Internship or research experience involving large language models, agent-based systems, or recommendation or advertising systems.
  • Exposure to advertising or recommendation-system concepts and metrics, including cost per acquisition, return on ad spend, conversion rate, click-through rate, and conversions.
  • Personal or academic projects demonstrating initiative in building AI agents or automation tools.

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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