Software Engineer AI/ML Content Generation

Job Description:

Job Description

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp.

About the Role:

Since early 2019, Dow Jones has been pioneering AI-generated story creation based on real-time market data with great success. Our readers not only want, but need, timely, accurate, and personalized coverage. Now, we are seeking an enthusiastic engineer to work alongside our business stakeholders, product owners, and developers to further explore opportunities to automate and personalize the content experience. Your team will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining services that manage AI content across all of Dow Jones. Existing services consist of front and backend applications that solve a wide range of problems in the text generation space. We’re looking for a self-starter who is willing to explore and learn about existing services, while also working to create new greenfield applications. 

You Will: 

• Engage actively in the News Automation team's efforts in automated language generation

• Be part of a team generating over 700 AI-authored articles daily

• Contribute to automated publishing efforts for other Dow Jones brands, including Dow Jones Newswires, MarketWatch, Barron’s, and Mansion Global

• Work with template-driven and ML-driven AI technologies in the media and publishing sector

• Work on delivering user-facing content for News Corp products, utilizing technologies like AWS, Node.js, React, and others as required

You Have:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

• 0-3 years of hands-on development experience

• Fluency with Node.js, Typescript, and Python

• Experience with cloud computing via AWS or another cloud provider

• Familiarity with Large Language Models

• Experience with Agile Development methodologies (Kanban)

• Strong understanding of software best-practices as it applies to web application development

• Proven ability to analyze, decompose, and estimate effort associated with various technical solutions

Additional preferred experience:

• C# and .NET Core

• Terraform, CloudFormation or other infrastructure as code solution

• Docker, Elastic Beanstalk or other cloud or container based application deployment

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets .

Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, please reach out to us at [email protected]. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line.

Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at [email protected]. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - Technology

Job Category:

Software Product Engineering

Union Status:

Union role

Pay Range: $85,000 - $105,000

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..