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AI Development Engineer (AIGC & AI Agent)

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NewsBreak

NewsBreak

Mountain View, California, United States
On-site
Posted March 31, 2026

Job Description

About NewsBreak

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.

If you’re inspired to dream big, innovate fast, and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you! For more information, visit www.newsbreak.com/about

About the Role

We are seeking an AI Development Engineer to join our AI and machine learning team. This role focuses on multimodal machine learning modeling (audio, video, image, text) and the development of AIGC systems and AI agents.

You will work on translating state-of-the-art research into scalable, real-world AI systems, including virtual humans, text-to-image, and text-to-video generation. You will collaborate closely with research, engineering, and product teams to advance next-generation multimodal and generative AI technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop multimodal ML models for understanding and generation across audio, video, image, and text
  • Build AIGC systems, including virtual humans, text-to-image, and text-to-video models
  • Develop AI agent systems, covering reasoning, planning, tool usage, and multi-agent collaboration
  • Convert cutting-edge research into scalable, production-ready AI systems

Requirements

  • 2+ years of relevant industry experience or a PhD in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or a related field
  • At least two publications in top-tier AI/ML conferences or journals, such as
    NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, SIGGRAPH, or TPAMI
  • Research experience in multimodal AI or AIGC, including generative models, virtual humans, or text-to-image / text-to-video
  • Strong ML/DL foundation with hands-on experience in one or more of:
    • Large Language Models (LLMs)
    • Multimodal models
    • Diffusion models
    • Computer vision / video understanding and generation
    • Audio and speech processing
  • Proficiency in Python with solid engineering and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience or knowledge in frontend or client-side development, with an understanding of how AI systems integrate into user-facing products, including:
    • Web frontend development:
      • JavaScript / TypeScript
      • Modern frameworks such as React or Vue
      • API integration and data visualization
    • iOS development:
      • Swift and/or Objective-C
      • Familiarity with iOS app architecture and performance considerations
    • Android development:
      • Kotlin and/or Java
      • Understanding of Android app architecture and system constraints
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