Newsroom AI and Automation Engineer
Newsroom AI and Automation Engineer
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$ 95000 - 100000
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Job Description
Hearst Television (HTV) is hiring a Newsroom AI and Automation Engineer. The ideal candidate will have a journalism background and be passionate about Generative AI technology. Youll help develop newsroom tools and reader/viewer-facing experiences that harness generative AI and automation responsibly and creatively to improve reporting speed up workflows and expand our coverage of local communities. This is a full-time in-person role based in one of our HTV markets or at our corporate offices in Washington DC or New York City.
What Youll Do
- Design build and maintain AI-powered tools that help newsrooms produce high-quality local journalism and grow audience.
- Develop products and features using modern LLM APIs and open-source models including chat/assistive tools structured-data extraction from unstructured sources summarization translation and RAG (retrieval augmented generation).
- Integrate AI into existing newsroom workflows (CMS planning search video archives) minimizing repetitive tasks and speeding newsgathering.
- Engineer reliable prompts and system instructions; evaluate and fine tune outputs for accuracy fairness and clarity.
- Set up monitoring logging and analytics to evaluate tool quality latency and adoption; iterate quickly based on newsroom feedback.
- Partner with product engineering editorial and standards/legal teams to design audience-facing features that are brand-safe and trustworthy.
Requirements
- 23 years of software development experience with strong proficiency in Python; working knowledge of Jupyter NumPy and pandas.
- Demonstrated experience implementing LLMs in newsroom-facing automation; familiarity with model capabilities and limitations.
- Experience with LLM APIs ( Bedrock Vertex etc.) and modern AI frameworks (e.g. LangChain; experience with LangSmith is a plus).
- Experience designing prompts and evaluation strategies; comfort with guardrails content policies and bias/quality reviews.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure) serverless architectures and containerized development/deployment (Docker).
- Proficiency with Git/GitHub and modern development workflows.
- Working knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript and integrating services via APIs; experience with web scraping.
- Familiarity or willingness to meaningfully adopt GenAI code-assisting tools (e.g. Cursor Github Copilot).
- Strong problem solving and project management skills; ability to prioritize multiple projects and hit deadlines.
- Related military experience will be considered.
- This role collaborates closely with the Hearst Television AI Integration team and station newsrooms across our network.
Diversity Statement
At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures backgrounds perspectives and identities. Thats why behind the scenes we believe in being an organization as diverse and varied as the audience we reach ensuring that the content we create is more compassionate and more representative of the communities we serve.
Benefits
Hearsts benefit programs are modern flexible and designed to focus on you. As a Hearst employee you and your spouse or partner or dependents would have access to the following benefits.
- Medical Dental Vision
- 401(k) matching
- Emotional Wellness Support
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- LGBTQ Health Services
- Additional benefits to meet your and your familys needs
Salary
The salary for this role is $95000-$100000. The actual base pay offered is dependent upon many factors such as transferable skills work experience business needs market demands and conditions including geographic location where the work will be performed and other factors permitted by law. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Employment Type
Full-Time
