NewsBreak Venture, AI Growth Intelligence Engineer (New Grad）

NewsBreak · Engineering

Pay: $135,000–$155,000/yr
Where: Mountain View, California, United States
Posted: Jul 6

Founded in 2015, NewsBreak is the Content Intelligence platform shaping the future content economy. With over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers highly personalized local news and information powered by advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.

Recognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we're proud to be Great Place to Work® certified and home to a dynamic team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges at scale.

Together, we reached unicorn status in 2021, and we remain committed to continuing this high-growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence.

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What you'd do

Help build instrumentation and monitoring systems that track performance signals (load times, stream quality, error rates) to ensure users experience fast, flawless products across web, app, and live streams
Contribute to backend services and dashboards that track engagement and retention metrics — session length, scroll depth, return rate, and drop-off points
Build tooling to help surface friction in the user journey, working with product and engineering to ship fixes
Support the experimentation infrastructure used to test retention-boosting product changes
Contribute to recommendation algorithms and services that surface the right content to the right user at the right moment, under the guidance of senior engineers
Help build the data infrastructure (feature pipelines, training datasets, feedback loops) that keeps recommendation models fresh, accurate, and served in production with low latency
Help instrument personalization systems to measure impact on session time, click-through rates, and long-term retention
Partner with content and product teams to ship recommendation output into intuitive, performant user experiences
Build and maintain components of data pipelines and services that process large-scale ads, user event, and engagement data
Write clean, well-tested code (SQL, Python, PySpark, or similar) to transform raw data into reliable, analysis-ready datasets and APIs, with code review support from senior team members

What they want

Bachelor's or Master's degree (recent grad or up to ~2 years of experience) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
Solid software engineering fundamentals — data structures, algorithms, basic system design
Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language (Python, Java, Scala, or Go) and working knowledge of SQL
Coursework, academic projects, or internship experience involving data pipelines, backend services, or applied software systems
Exposure to distributed data processing concepts (Spark, Hive, or similar) is a plus, not required
Basic understanding of A/B testing and experimental design principles

What you get

Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family (100% coverage for employee)
Top-tier 401(K) plan with company matching
Paid time off and paid holidays
FSA, HSA and commuter benefits programs
Team activity budget