Staff ML Engineer — Scalable Recommendations & AI Platform

NewsBreak; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision care

Top-tier 401(K) plan with company-mact

Paid time off and paid holidays

Paid parental leave

FSA and commuter benefits programs

Team activity budget

Job summary

NewsBreak in Mountain View, CA is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to provide technical leadership for our recommendation systems and AI initiatives. You will define direction for large-scale personalization systems and drive cross-team collaboration.

The role emphasizes system-level thinking, mentoring, and turning ambiguous problems into scalable solutions, with opportunities to apply LLMs and AI-native engineering practices across products and platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience building large-scale ML or recommendation systems.
• Deep expertise in recommendation systems and production ML.
• Strong system design skills and cross-team influence.
• Proven track record of technical leadership and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead design of next-generation recommendation architectures at scale.
• Drive model lifecycle, experimentation, and reliability.
• Guide adoption of AI/LLM technologies in production and product.
• Mentor engineers and promote AI-native development practices.

Skills

Large-scale ML systems

Recommendation systems

System design

Technical leadership

Job description

NewsBreak in Mountain View, CA is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to provide technical leadership for our recommendation systems and AI initiatives. You will define direction for large-scale personalization systems and drive cross-team collaboration.

The role emphasizes system-level thinking, mentoring, and turning ambiguous problems into scalable solutions, with opportunities to apply LLMs and AI-native engineering practices across products and platforms.