Applied AI Engineer, Advertising Agents

NewsBreak; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision care (100% coverage for employee)

Top-tier 401(k) plan with company matching

Paid time off and paid holidays

Team activity budget

Job summary

NewsBreak in Mountain View, California, is seeking a talented engineer specializing in AI Account Management. You'll be responsible for designing and improving an AI-driven intelligent platform for account hosting and optimization, directly impacting global advertisers' experiences.

This role demands strong technical skills in machine learning and software development, with an emphasis on ad delivery platforms. Enjoy competitive benefits and a challenging, innovative work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, or Data Science required.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals needed.
• Experience with building, deploying, and optimizing systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize AI-driven intelligent account hosting and optimization platforms.
• Build autonomous optimization and intelligent scheduling systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance AI account management.

Skills

Ad delivery platform knowledge

Recommendation systems

Software engineering fundamentals

Analytical problem-solving

Machine learning fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or related fields

Tools

Kubernetes

REST/API integration

LLMs

Job description

Mountain View, California, United States

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.

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

We reached unicorn status in 2021 and remain committed to a high‑growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence.

About the Role

Are you looking to engage in AI Account Management algorithm work as an excellent engineer to join our advertising team? In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing an AI‑driven intelligent account hosting and optimization platform. You will utilize LLMs, multimodal foundation models, and related techniques to build AI advertising expert systems (AI agents) that run a closed optimization loop—autonomously diagnosing accounts and safely auto‑tuning delivery.

Your work will directly lower the delivery barrier for global advertisers on our platform. While ensuring the health and compliance of the account ecosystem, your intelligent operations will maximize advertisers’ willingness to spend and platform revenue.

Responsibilities

• Build In‑house AI Account Manager System: Own the algorithm and system design for the core "AI Account Manager"—realizing automated hosting, autonomous optimization, and intelligent scheduling of optimization across many advertiser accounts running concurrently.
• Construct Intelligent Diagnosis and Strategy Recommendation Models: Analyze advertisers’ performance data and delivery history to assess account health and automatically diagnose delivery pain points (such as inability to scale volume, sudden drops in ROI, or budget capping), then use LLMs to generate and safely execute actionable, auditable account‑level tuning strategies.
• Ensure Reliability and Measurable Quality: Build long‑running services, observability, dry‑run safeguards, and offline/online evaluation that keep optimization quality measurable and catch regressions before they reach live spend.
• Cross‑team Collaboration to Drive Growth: Work closely with the platform‑side ad delivery algorithm team and product managers to transform AI account management capabilities into the platform’s core commercial competitiveness, improving advertiser retention rate and overall consumption.

Minimal Qualifications

• Education Background: Bachelor’s/Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or related fields.
• Work Experience:
  • Basic understanding of ad delivery platforms or recommendation systems; fresh graduates are acceptable.
  • Familiar with building, deploying, and optimizing agentic systems in production environments.
  • Strong software‑engineering fundamentals: production‑quality code, asynchronous/concurrent programming, typed and data‑modeled code, and a solid testing discipline.
• Core Technical Stack:
  • Advanced skills with LLMs, RAG, tool‑use, memory handling, and agent orchestration (including MCP‑style tool ecosystems).
  • Hands‑on experience with harness engineering, structured/schema‑validated LLM 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.
  • Solid grounding in machine learning and AI fundamentals; familiarity with advertising or recommendation system concepts.
  • Excellent analytical and complex problem‑solving abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Industry Background: Algorithm experience in the field of ad delivery, with more than 2 years applying large‑model capabilities to systems such as automated delivery, automated hosting, autonomous tuning, or automatic scheduling.
• AI Production Experience: Experience landing commercial AI agents (agent‑based systems), large‑model instruction tuning, or multimodal models.
• Business Acumen: Understanding of digital advertising mechanics and core metrics (CPA, ROAS, CVR, CTR, conversions) and of online A/B experimentation.

What We Offer

• Technical Hard Power Born for Monetization: Participate in using the most cutting‑edge generative AI and agent technologies to reshape the B‑end ad monetization ecosystem at internet scale.
• Direct Commercial Impact: Your algorithm and engineering optimizations will directly reflect on the real growth of advertisers and the platform’s revenue flywheel.
• Top‑tier Computing Resources and Environment: Access to industry‑leading foundation models, large‑scale computing infrastructure, and opportunities to work side‑by‑side with world‑class advertising, AI, and infrastructure engineers.
• Competitive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision care (100% coverage for employee), top‑tier 401(k) plan with company matching, paid time off and paid holidays, FSA, HSA and commuter benefits programs, and team activity budget.

We offer a competitive benefits package:

• Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family (100% coverage for employee)
• Top‑tier 401(k) plan with company matching
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• FSA, HSA and commuter benefits programs
• Team activity budget

As set forth in NewsBreak’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.