Senior Newsroom Developer

Job Description: POLITICO is seeking a Sr. Newsroom Developer (Machine Learning) to help build the next generation of AI-powered newsroom and product capabilities. As we expand into new sector products, new professional audiences and new geographies, POLITICO is investing in machine learning systems that go beyond simply integrating foundation models.

This role will work alongside software engineers, product managers, journalists and editorial leadership to develop models, evaluation frameworks and data pipelines that apply POLITICO's editorial expertise across AI-powered tools and improve newsroom and product workflows. The ideal candidate is excited about applying machine learning in support of journalism. You'll work closely with software engineers, journalists and product teams to develop AI-powered tools and data products that strengthen reporting, improve newsroom workflows and help bring POLITICO's editorial expertise to a broader audience.

What You'll Do: Design, build and deploy production machine learning systems that support newsroom, editorial and new-audience initiatives. Develop classification, prediction and ranking models using proprietary newsroom data and editorial expertise — a modeling foundation that extends across new products rather than requiring a bespoke build per vertical. Build datasets, feature engineering pipelines and evaluation frameworks to improve AI system performance.

Experiment with prompting, retrieval, fine-tuning and other model adaptat