Applied AI Engineer, Advertising Agents

Reposted 2 Months Ago
Mountain View, CA, USA
In-Office
135K-185K Annually
Entry level
Information Technology • Software
The Role
Design and build an AI-driven account management and optimization platform using LLMs and agentic systems. Create diagnosis and recommendation models, ensure reliable long-running services with observability and safeguards, and collaborate with ad delivery and product teams to improve advertiser performance and revenue.
Summary Generated by Built In

About NewsBreak

Local life runs on local information. What happened down the street? Who can fix this? Where should we go tonight? NewsBreak started in 2015 to answer these questions, and today more than 40 million people a month rely on us to follow what’s going on in their zip code.

Three platforms with one vision: powering local life. Led by founder and CEO Jeff Zheng, NewsBreak is our local life and news platform; Nearby AI connects people with local businesses; and NDot AI helps publishers and creators grow and earn.

Building for the long term. A $115 million Series C made us a unicorn in 2021, and we keep investing in our people. We’re Great Place to Work® certified and named to Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators (2025) and Fortune’s Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ (2026).

Everyone makes an impact. Whether you write code, shape products, tell our story, or run the business, we want people who own projects end to end, stay curious, and speak up. Join us.

Learn more at: NewsBreak, Nearby AI, NDot AI

About the Role

Are you looking to engage in AI Account Management algorithm work as an excellent engineer to join our advertising team? In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing an AI-driven intelligent account hosting and optimization platform. You will utilize LLMs, Multimodal Foundation Models, and related techniques to build AI advertising expert systems (AI Agents) that run a closed optimization loop — autonomously diagnosing accounts and safely auto-tuning delivery.

Your work will directly lower the delivery barrier for global advertisers on our platform. While ensuring the health and compliance of the account ecosystem, your intelligent operations will maximize advertisers' willingness to spend and platform revenue.

Responsibilities

  • Build In-house AI Account Manager System: Own the algorithm and system design for the core "AI Account Manager" — realizing automated hosting, autonomous optimization, and intelligent scheduling of optimization across many advertiser accounts running concurrently.
  • Construct Intelligent Diagnosis and Strategy Recommendation Models: Analyze advertisers' performance data and delivery history to assess account health and automatically diagnose delivery pain points (such as inability to scale volume, sudden drops in ROI, or budget capping), then use LLMs to generate and safely execute actionable, auditable account-level tuning strategies.
  • Ensure Reliability and Measurable Quality: Build the long-running services, observability, dry-run safeguards, and offline/online evaluation that keep optimization quality measurable and catch regressions before they reach live spend.
  • Cross-team Collaboration to Drive Growth: Work closely with the platform-side ad delivery algorithm team and product managers to transform AI account management capabilities into the platform's core commercial competitiveness, improving advertiser retention rate and overall consumption.
Minimal Qualifications
  • Education Background: Bachelor's/Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or related fields.
  • Work Experience:
    • Possess a basic understanding of fields such as ad delivery platforms or recommendation systems; fresh graduates are acceptable.
    • Familiar with building, deploying, and optimizing agentic systems in production environments.
    • Strong software-engineering fundamentals: production-quality code, asynchronous/concurrent programming, typed and data-modeled code, and a solid testing discipline.
  • Core Technical Stack:
    • Master LLMs, RAG, tool-use, memory handling, and agent orchestration (including MCP-style tool ecosystems).
    • Hands-on with harness engineering, structured/schema-validated LLM outputs, and integration with modern model APIs.
    • Experience with REST/API integration and building reliable long-running services; familiar with modern deployment tools such as Kubernetes.
    • Solid grounding in machine learning and AI fundamentals; familiar with advertising or recommendation system concepts.
    • Possess excellent analytical and complex problem-solving abilities.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Industry Background: Algorithm experience in the field of ad delivery, with more than 2 years applying large-model capabilities to systems such as automated delivery, automated hosting, autonomous tuning, or automatic scheduling.
  • AI Production Experience: Experience landing commercial AI agents (agent-based systems), large-model instruction tuning, or multimodal models.
  • Business Acumen: Understanding of digital advertising mechanics and core metrics (CPA, ROAS, CVR, CTR, conversions) and of online A/B experimentation.
What We Offer
  • Technical Hard Power Born for Monetization: Participate in using the most cutting-edge Generative AI and Agent technologies to reshape the B-end ad monetization ecosystem under internet scale.
  • Direct Commercial Impact: Your algorithm and engineering optimizations will directly reflect on the real growth of advertisers and the platform's revenue flywheel.
  • Top-tier Computing Resources and Environment: Access to industry-leading foundation models, large-scale computing infrastructure, and opportunities to work side-by-side with world-class advertising, AI, and infrastructure engineers.
Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package:

  • 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
The US base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. Pay may vary based on a number of factors including job-related skills, level, experience, geographic location and relevant education or training. At NewsBreak, we design our overall rewards package to attract top talents. Depending on the position, the role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus and options. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.
Annual Base Pay Range
$135,000—$185,000 USD

CPRA Privacy Notice for California Candidates


Skills Required

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or related field.
  • Basic understanding of ad delivery platforms or recommendation systems (fresh graduates acceptable).
  • Experience building, deploying, and optimizing agentic systems in production.
  • Strong software-engineering fundamentals: production-quality code, asynchronous/concurrent programming, typed and data-modeled code, and solid testing discipline.
  • Mastery of LLMs, RAG, tool-use, memory handling, and agent orchestration.
  • Hands-on experience with harness engineering, structured/schema-validated LLM outputs, and integration with modern model APIs.
  • Experience with REST/API integration and building reliable long-running services; familiarity with Kubernetes.
  • Solid grounding in machine learning and AI fundamentals; familiarity with advertising or recommendation system concepts.
  • Excellent analytical and complex problem-solving abilities.
Am I A Good Fit?
beta
Get Personalized Job Insights.
Our AI-powered fit analysis compares your resume with a job listing so you know if your skills & experience align.

The Company
HQ: Mountain View, CA
346 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

NewsBreak is the leading platform for local news and information, with more than 40 million users across America. By using new technology, NewsBreak provides community-focused news and information from over 10,000 sources in a timely and accessible way. NewsBreak is bridging the gap between new technology and traditional local media, offering an innovative digital solution that allows users to get the information they need to live safer, more vibrant, and connected lives. Based in Mountain View, California, NewsBreak connects users with local information, national publishers, and targeted advertising from local businesses, with increased traffic and revenue that helps strengthen local communities. We are always looking for great talents. Contact us via [email protected] Our website: https://www.newsbreak.com/about Creator Program: https://www.newsbreak.com/creators Publishing Platform: https://mp.newsbreakapp.com Android App Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.particlenews.newsbreak&hl=en iOS App Download: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-break-personal-local/id1132762804?mt=8

Similar Jobs

NewsBreak Logo NewsBreak

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Information Technology • Software
In-Office
Mountain View, CA, USA
346 Employees
135K-155K Annually

Liberty Mutual Insurance Logo Liberty Mutual Insurance

Executive Underwriter, Inland Marine

Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Insurance • Marketing Tech • Software • Analytics
Hybrid
5 Locations
40000 Employees
91K-278K Annually

Boeing Logo Boeing

Lead Wire Design & Install Engineer

Aerospace • Information Technology • Software • Cybersecurity • Design • Defense • Manufacturing
In-Office
El Segundo, CA, USA
170000 Employees
146K-198K Annually

Boeing Logo Boeing

Systems Engineer

Aerospace • Information Technology • Software • Cybersecurity • Design • Defense • Manufacturing
In-Office
El Segundo, CA, USA
170000 Employees
147K-248K Annually

Similar Companies Hiring

Revel Thumbnail
Aerospace • Hardware • Robotics • Software
Marina Del Rey, California
70 Employees
Blee Thumbnail
Artificial Intelligence • Marketing Tech • Software
New York, New York
33 Employees
RapidScale Thumbnail
Cloud • Information Technology • Consulting
Raleigh, NC
600 Employees

Sign up now Access later

Create Free Account

Please log in or sign up to report this job.

Create Free Account