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NewsBreak

Runs a personalized local news app for US readers

Applied AI Engineer - Advertising Agents

AI Application Engineering +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMountain View, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related field.
  • A basic understanding of ad delivery platforms or recommendation systems; fresh graduates are acceptable.
  • Familiarity with building, deploying, and optimizing agentic systems in production environments.
  • Strong software-engineering fundamentals, including production-quality code, asynchronous and concurrent programming, typed and data-modeled code, and a solid testing discipline.
  • Mastery of large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, memory handling, and agent orchestration, including MCP-style tool ecosystems.
  • Hands-on experience with harness engineering, structured and schema-validated large language model outputs, and integration with modern model APIs.
  • Experience with REST/API integration and building reliable long-running services; familiarity with modern deployment tools such as Kubernetes.
  • A solid grounding in machine learning and artificial intelligence fundamentals, and familiarity with advertising or recommendation system concepts.
  • Strong analytical and complex problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and optimize an AI-driven intelligent account hosting and optimization platform using large language models, multimodal foundation models, and related techniques to build AI advertising expert systems that autonomously diagnose accounts and safely tune delivery.
  • Own algorithm and system design for the core AI Account Manager, enabling automated hosting, autonomous optimization, and intelligent scheduling across many concurrent advertiser accounts.
  • Analyze advertiser performance data and delivery history to assess account health and diagnose delivery problems, such as inability to scale volume, sudden return-on-investment drops, or budget capping; use large language models to generate and safely execute actionable, auditable account-level tuning strategies.
  • Build long-running services, observability, dry-run safeguards, and offline and online evaluation to measure optimization quality and catch regressions before they affect live spending.
  • Work with the platform-side ad delivery algorithm team and product managers to translate AI account-management capabilities into core platform commercial capabilities and improve advertiser retention and overall consumption.

Desired Qualifications

  • Algorithm experience in ad delivery, with more than two years applying large-model capabilities to systems such as automated delivery, automated hosting, autonomous tuning, or automatic scheduling.
  • Experience commercializing AI agents or agent-based systems, large-model instruction tuning, or multimodal models.
  • Understanding of digital advertising mechanics and core metrics including cost per action, return on ad spend, conversion rate, click-through rate, and conversions, as well as online A/B experimentation.

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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