Software Engineer, ML Infra

About NewsBreak

Founded in 2015, NewsBreak is the Content Intelligence platform shaping the future content economy. With over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers highly personalized local news and information powered by advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.

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Together, we reached unicorn status in 2021, and we remain committed to continuing this high-growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence.

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About the role:

We’re hiring a Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer to help build the backbone that trains, serves, and monitors the models behind our Ads and Recommendations products. You’ll join a small, high-ownership team that ships platform improvements end-to-end—partnering with product and data teams, reducing latency and cost, and shortening the path from an idea to a safely launched model.

You’ll work across the ML lifecycle: making training faster and more reliable, improving model serving performance, and strengthening our feature/embedding platform so models stay fresh and consistent between offline and online use. We’re looking for someone who can take real ownership, finish what’s started, and raise the bar on stability and developer experience.

Why this role

• Scope & impact: small team, big surface area—your work lands directly in production.

• Ownership: from design to rollout to post-launch learnings; real autonomy with support.

• Growth: visibility across the stack and a clear path to lead projects and mentor others.

• Pragmatic culture: we optimize for outcomes over buzzwords, and we value clear thinking, and follow-through.

If you like building reliable systems that make ML teams move faster—and you enjoy turning complexity into simple, durable solutions—we’d love to talk.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop machine learning infrastructure.

• Own and enhance core components of the ML infrastructure, including systems for offline and online model training, model pipeline health monitoring, model serving, feature authoring, and feature serving.

• Proactively address ML infrastructure issues that may impact production.

• Collaborate with ML engineers to build robust model pipelines utilizing the ML infrastructure.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in a related field with 5+ years of relevant experience, or MS/PhD in a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience

• Experience delivering production systems that support ML use cases (training or serving).

• Proven track record in building and maintaining large-scale distributed backend systems

• Proficient in Python, with a strong understanding of object-oriented languages such as C++ or Java

• Strong problem solving skills with good teamwork and communication skills

Preferred qualifications

• Experience leading cross-team projects from design through stable rollout.

• Experience iterating on ML models and shipping them to production.

Benefits

We offer competitive benefits package:

• Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family

• Top-tier 401(K) plan with company matching

• Paid time off and paid holidays

• Paid parental leave

• FSA and commuter benefits programs

• Team activity budget

The US base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. Pay may vary based on a number of factors including job-related skills, level, experience, geographic location and relevant education or training. At NewsBreak, we design our overall rewards package to attract top talents. Depending on the position, the role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus and options. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.
Annual Base Pay Range
$180,000—$225,000 USD

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