Newsroom AI Engineer
$90k/y-$120k/y
The Wall Street Journala day ago
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Summary
The Wall Street Journal is seeking a Newsroom AI Engineer to join their team in New York, NY. The role involves building AI-powered tools to enhance newsroom operations and support journalists.
About the Role
As a Newsroom AI Engineer, you will work at the intersection of engineering, product, audience, and journalism. Your responsibilities will include designing, prototyping, and maintaining AI tools, leveraging machine learning and generative AI to solve editorial challenges, and collaborating with journalists to understand their needs. You will also be tasked with developing evaluation frameworks and quality checks to ensure the tools are production-ready.
About You
Required:
- At least 2 years of experience shipping production software or machine learning systems.
- Experience building and deploying tools used by end users, ideally in content, media, or information-driven products.
- Strong empathy for journalists and an understanding of newsroom workflows.
- Experience building modern web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript and contemporary frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Next.js, or similar).
- Proficiency in Python, AWS, Git, and experience working with LLM APIs and modern AI tooling.
Preferred:
- Familiarity with generative AI techniques, evaluation, and responsible deployment.
- Experience working in or closely with a newsroom, media organization, or journalistic workflow.
- Comfortable working independently, navigating ambiguity, and delivering MVPs that can be tested and iterated on.
Benefits
- Comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package including physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, and transportation benefits.
- Flexible compensation offers tailored to the selected candidate's experience and skills.
The Wall Street Journal
Winner of 37 Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding journalism, The Wall Street Journal includes coverage of U.S. and world news, politics, arts, culture, lifestyle, sports, health and more. It's a critical resource of curated content in print, online and mobile apps, complete with breaking news streams, interactive features, video, online columns and blogs. Since 1889, readers have trusted the Journal for accurate, objective information to fuel their decisions as well as enlighten, educate and inspire them. On LinkedIn, we will share articles to help you navigate your career, including stories from our business, management, leisure and technology sections. Subscribe: http://on.wsj.com/1n1uvCH Job opportunities: http://www.dowjones.com/careers
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