or apply directly on NewsBreak's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 5 days NewsBreak's roles stay open a median of 44 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 15% of NewsBreak's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at NewsBreak
- high 25 stale, 0 reposted of 55 open
- Hiring momentum
- 61 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from NewsBreak's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for NewsBreak.
About this role
As a Senior Recommendation Engineer at NewsBreak, you will be responsible for building and owning recommendation and ranking systems for content feeds and customer-to-professional matching. Your role will involve designing an event-triggered engagement engine, defining evaluation frameworks, and contributing insights to the company's AI models. You will work within a small team focused on creating fair and effective systems that support high-consequence household decisions.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of NewsBreak as an employer.
What you need
- 5+ years of machine-learning or software engineering experience
- 3+ years shipping recommendation or ranking systems in production
- Built and operated a ranking system at consumer scale with millions of users
- Substantial online experimentation experience on ranking changes
- Deployed an uplift, causal, or counterfactual model in production
- Strong Python plus at least one of Java, Scala, or Go
Nice to have
- Feed or notification ranking experience at a content or media company
- Two-sided marketplace matching with fairness or exposure constraints in production
- Experience in domains with low-frequency, high-consequence decisions such as insurance, healthcare, or real estate
- Publications or open-source contributions in recommendation, causal inference, or marketplace design
What you get
- Annual base pay range of $150,000 — $300,000 USD
- Discretionary bonus and options may be available
- Overall rewards package designed to attract top talents
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of remote work options
- Focus on high-consequence decisions may limit the scope of experimentation
- Potentially high-pressure environment due to commercial considerations
Summarised from NewsBreak's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by NewsBreak on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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