NewsBreak
AI Engineer, Agent Platform
$120K–$220K
Mountain View, California, United States · Full-time · Posted May 27, 2026
About the job
Build and own the agent platform powering NewsBreak’s AI products, including its runtime, context engineering, evaluation and observability tools, and user-facing internal tools.
What you'll do
- Develop the agent runtime for context assembly, tool invocation, model routing, and workflow tracking across products.
- Build evaluation and observability systems and improve context retrieval, ranking, compression, and memory.
- Integrate and benchmark foundation models, build internal tools, and collaborate with product to ship agent concepts.
What they ask for
- Demonstrable experience shipping an AI product with real users.
- Hands-on familiarity with modern AI development tooling and ability to work independently end to end.
- Strong proficiency in Python, Go, or Node and solid backend engineering experience; sufficient React or Next.js skills to build internal tools.
- Perspective on agent design, including context management, tool-calling protocols, evaluation, and tradeoffs among fine-tuning, prompting, and scaffolding.
Nice to have
- Experience building or operating a multi-agent system in production.
- Experience with evaluation frameworks, prompt iteration, fine-tuning, public technical artifacts, or integrating LLMs with complex real-world data at scale.
Pay
$120,000 — $220,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
Python, Go, Node, React, Next.js, MCP, LM-eval, LoRA
AI focus
Build an agent platform for AI products, including agent runtime and orchestration, context engineering, evaluation and observability, model integration and selection, and internal user-facing tools.
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