Local Intent Data Mining Specialist

Mountain View, California, United States About NewsBreak Founded in 2015, NewsBreak is a Content Intelligence platform that delivers highly personalized local news powered by AI, recommendation systems, and adtech. With over 40 million monthly active users, the company has reached unicorn status and is a Great Place to Work® certified organization. About the role You will build systems that understand what local consumers actually want—turning raw queries, behavior, and context into structured intent. This includes query understanding, user‑intent classification, semantic search, and intent taxonomies and interest graphs that power discovery across local categories. You will bring LLMs into production to make local search and recommendations genuinely understand consumer intent. What you'll do Build query‑understanding, user‑intent classification, and semantic‑search models for local consumer demand. Design and grow intent taxonomies and interest graphs over local categories and merchants. Ship LLM‑powered features into production for search and recommendations at consumer scale. Work with embeddings, retrieval, and NLU to connect messy consumer language to local supply. Define metrics and run experiments that tie intent quality to downstream conversion. What we're looking for 5+ years as an Applied Scientist or ML Engineer on query understanding, intent, semantic search, or NLU. Production experience shipping models that serve real users. Hands‑on experience with embeddings, semantic search, intent classification, taxonomy, or interest‑graph construction. Experience bringing LLMs into production systems. Comfort working at consumer‑internet data scale. Nice to have Background at search or ads quality teams at Google, Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, DoorDash, Instacart, Amazon Search/Alexa, or Apple. Built a user‑intent taxonomy or interest graph at a consumer internet company. Consumer‑intent or personalization work at a local platform such as DoorDash or Instacart. As set forth in NewsBreak’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law. #J-18808-Ljbffr NewsBreak