ML Engineer for AI-Powered Newsroom

POLITICO; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

POLITICO is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to build AI-powered newsroom and product capabilities. You will design and deploy ML systems, collaborate with journalists and editors, and develop data pipelines tailored to editorial needs and newsroom workflows.

You’ll work with software engineers, product managers and newsroom leadership to advance models, evaluation frameworks and data products that broaden POLITICO’s editorial reach while balancing accuracy and operational performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience building or deploying machine learning systems.
• Strong software engineering skills, preferably in Python.
• Experience with ML fundamentals including supervised learning, feature engineering, model evaluation and experimentation.
• Experience with modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy production machine learning systems that support newsroom, editorial and new-audience initiatives.
• Develop classification, prediction and ranking models using proprietary newsroom data and editorial expertise.
• Build datasets, feature engineering pipelines and evaluation frameworks to improve AI system performance.
• Experiment with prompting, retrieval, fine-tuning and other model adaptation techniques.
• Partner with journalists and editors to translate editorial knowledge into ML features and evaluation criteria.
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate ML capabilities into production applications.
• Measure and improve model quality using rigorous evaluation methodologies.
• Evaluate new AI technologies considering performance, cost, maintainability and long‑term flexibility.

Skills

Python

ML frameworks

NLP

Data pipelines

Structured & unstructured data

Problem solving

Communication

Job description

POLITICO is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to build AI-powered newsroom and product capabilities. You will design and deploy ML systems, collaborate with journalists and editors, and develop data pipelines tailored to editorial needs and newsroom workflows.

You’ll work with software engineers, product managers and newsroom leadership to advance models, evaluation frameworks and data products that broaden POLITICO’s editorial reach while balancing accuracy and operational performance.