Machine Learning Engineering Manager

About News Break

News Break defines a new way for users to engage with local news and community. We connect and empower local users, local content contributors, and local businesses at scale, with the goal of helping people everywhere live safer, more vibrant, more truly connected lives. By forging close partnerships with thousands of local publishers and businesses around the country, NewsBreak is helping a new generation of readers find and engage with vital, locally published content and information.

Since our founding in 2015, we have grown by leaps and bounds to become the nation's leading local news app! We’re the #1 app in the category on both iOS and Android.

We're a Series-C unicorn startup, headquartered at Mountain View, California. For more information, visit www.newsbreak.com/about

About the Role

Responsibilities

• Develop highly scalable tools leveraging machine learning models to solve problems such as classification, clustering, topic modeling, natural language processing and recommendation
• Develop in-house machine learning tools and pipelines to support fast experimentation of machine learning models
• Work with other engineers to identify and solve machine learning problems

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, recommendation systems, deep learning, feed, relevance and data mining.
• Expert knowledge in Java or Scala
• Experience with scripting languages such as Perl, Python, and shell scripts
• Experience leading engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications

• MS degree in Computer Science or related quantitative field with 10+ years of machine learning related work or research, or PhD degree in Computer Science or related quantitative field
• Experience with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch or MxNet
• Publications in trade journals such as JMLR or Machine Learning, or Presentations at related conferences such as ICML, NeurIPS, KDD, SIGIR and etc.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
• Robust 401(K) plan with company matching
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• FSA and commuter benefits programs
• Team activity budget

Come join us in continuing to make NewsBreak a great place to work!