Software Engineer, ML Infra (Junior & New Grad)

NewsBreak · Engineering

Pay: $125,000–$175,000/yr
Where: Mountain View, California, United States
Posted: Nov 5, 2025

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.

Recognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we're proud to be Great Place to Work® certified and home to a dynamic team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges at scale.

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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What you'd do

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.
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.

What they want

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 2+ years of relevant work experience; or a Master’s/PhD in a related discipline.
Familiarity with software development processes, including version control, bug tracking, and design documentation.
Proficient in Python, with a strong understanding of object-oriented languages such as C++ or Java
Basic knowledge of Applied Machine Learning and experience with major Deep Learning frameworks, such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.