NewsBreak
Applied AI Engineer, Advertising Agents (New Grad)
About this role
NewsBreak seeks a recent graduate to build AI-driven advertising systems using LLMs and agent technology. You'll develop intelligent account management platforms that diagnose and auto-optimize advertiser campaigns while working closely with senior engineers in a high-impact role.
What you'll do
- Design and implement components of an AI Account Manager system for automated hosting and optimization across advertiser accounts
- Build diagnostic models and LLM-powered strategy recommendations to identify account health issues and deliver optimization guidance
- Develop observability, safeguards, and evaluation pipelines to ensure optimization quality and catch regressions before live deployment
- Collaborate with senior engineers, ad delivery algorithm teams, and product managers to translate AI capabilities into business value
- Write clean, testable code for agentic systems integrating with modern model APIs and REST endpoints
- Contribute to scaling the platform's ability to serve global advertisers with lower delivery barriers
What they're looking for
- Large Language Models (LLMs) and agent orchestration
- Python or similar backend programming language
- Machine learning and AI fundamentals
- Asynchronous/concurrent programming
- REST API integration and design
- Docker or Kubernetes deployment basics
- Structured/schema-validated LLM output handling
- Advertising metrics and recommendation system concepts (CPA, ROAS, CVR, CTR)
Benefits
- Mentorship from senior engineers on applied AI and generative systems
- Access to industry-leading foundation models and large-scale computing infrastructure
- Direct visibility into real advertiser growth and platform revenue impact
- Fast Company Top Workplace for Innovators recognition and Great Place to Work certification
- Opportunity to shape content intelligence infrastructure at a unicorn-status company
- Exposure to production-scale ad monetization and optimization challenges
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NewsBreak
NewsBreak operates a news and local marketplace platform serving 40M+ monthly active users, leveraging machine learning and data infrastructure to power recommendations, advertising, and matching between consumers and businesses. The company is hiring software engineers, ML engineers, and data specialists to build and optimize backend systems, ML infrastructure, recommendation engines, and algorithms that drive user engagement and monetization.
- Website
- newsbreak.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe a project where you built or experimented with an agentic system—what was your role and what did you learn?
- Walk us through how you'd design an LLM-based agent to diagnose issues in an advertiser account given performance data and delivery history.