Job Description

Job Purpose:

• We are seeking an innovative and experienced Senior AI Engineer to join our growing AI team and help scale artificial intelligence across the company's diverse portfolio of digital platforms and news brands. In this role, you will be instrumental in implementing production-ready AI solutions that enhance personalization, accelerate newsroom productivity, and improve user experiences across all our channels and brands
• As a Senior AI Engineer, you will work on challenging problems ranging from content recommendation systems and personalization engines to AI-powered newsroom tools and automated content workflows. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, data scientists, engineers, and editorial teams, to deliver AI solutions that directly impact millions of users

Key Responsibilities:
AI Production and Scaling:

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable AI/ML systems and pipelines using cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Build and maintain production-grade machine learning models for content recommendation, personalization, and newsroom automation
• Implement MLOps practices, including model versioning, automated testing, monitoring, and continuous deployment
• Optimize AI model performance, latency, and resource utilization for high-traffic production environments

Personalization and Content Intelligence:

• Develop and enhance personalization algorithms that deliver relevant content experiences across web, mobile, and emerging platforms
• Build content classification, semantic analysis, and recommendation systems using NLP and deep learning techniques
• Implement real-time content processing pipelines for automated tagging, categorization, and content matching
• Create user profiling and behavioral analysis systems to improve content targeting and engagement

Newsroom AI and Editorial Tools:

• Collaborate with editorial teams to develop AI-powered tools that accelerate content creation and curation
• Build automated content workflows including article summarization, fact-checking assistance, and content optimization
• Implement AI solutions for news aggregation, content deduplication, and trend analysis
• Develop tools for automated social media content generation and distribution optimization

Technical Excellence and Innovation:

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented Python code following software engineering best practices
• Design and implement APIs and microservices for AI model serving and integration
• Conduct experiments with cutting-edge AI technologies, including large language models (LLMs), transformer architectures, and generative AI
• Stay current with AI/ML research and evaluate new technologies for potential

Required Skills and Experience:
Technical Qualifications:

• Honours or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related technical field
• Minimum 5+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years focused on AI/ML development
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience with ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn)
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS SageMaker, Google AI Platform, Azure ML) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proven experience building and deploying production ML systems at scale

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in media, publishing, or content-driven industries
• Knowledge of content management systems and editorial workflows
• Understanding of web analytics, user behavior analysis, and A/B testing methodologies
• Experience with real-time streaming data processing (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub)
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog)

Skills Required