NewsBreak
Machine Learning Engineer, Local Search & Marketplace
About this role
NewsBreak seeks a Machine Learning Engineer to develop intelligent systems connecting users with relevant local information, businesses, and services. You'll work on search, recommendation, ranking, and marketplace matching problems, taking solutions from conception through production deployment.
What you'll do
- Build and improve ML models for search, recommendation, ranking, retrieval, matching, and personalization
- Develop systems to understand user queries, behaviors, preferences, and context
- Apply embeddings, NLP, LLMs, and modern retrieval techniques to connect consumer demand with local content
- Build and optimize end-to-end ML pipelines from data preparation through online serving and monitoring
- Design and analyze online and offline experiments to measure model quality and business impact
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams to translate business needs into scalable ML solutions
What they're looking for
- Machine learning model development
- Python, Java, C++, or similar programming languages
- Natural language processing and embeddings
- Search, retrieval, and ranking systems
- Large language models
- ML pipeline development and optimization
- Statistical analysis and experimentation
- Recommendation systems
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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
- Tell us about a machine learning project where you took a model from experimentation to production—what challenges did you face?
- How would you approach building a ranking model for local search results to improve relevance?