Lead Machine Learning Engineer - News
Core
Building robust data pipelines and advanced ML platforms to deliver personalized news content and real-time content distribution across web, mobile, and connected TV for ABC News, GMA, and local stations.
Role type
Lead Machine Learning Engineer (News Personalization)
Builds
Scalable learning, inference, and monitoring infrastructure; recommendation systems; autogenerated tagging solutions; RAGs
Domain
Media & Entertainment / News / Personalization
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Deep learning algorithms, statistical methods, backend microservices (REST), cloud infrastructure (AWS), Spark/ML pipelines, big data technologies (Databricks, Kinesis, Kafka), observability tools (Datadog), feature engineering, batch training, low-latency online serving
Preferred skills
Data exploration and analysis, technical design, risk mitigation, knowledge sharing
Technologies
AWS (Step Functions, Lambda, Glue, SQS, SNS, Personalize), Spark, Databricks, Kinesis, Kafka, Datadog
Responsibilities
Own complex technical initiatives end-to-end; design and develop ML infrastructure; drive ML-driven solutions for diverse use cases; partner with product and editorial stakeholders; prioritize initiatives and mitigate risks; champion engineering best practices; mentor and coach engineers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities