machine learning engineer in search

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations worldwide through print, digital, mobile, and live events. Its portfolio includes leading publications and products such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, and Dow Jones Newswires.

• Design, build, and operate search systems and services powering content discovery and user engagement;
• Develop and improve ML models across the personalization stack, from candidate generation to final ranking;
• Improve candidate retrieval using embeddings, two-tower architectures, and user and content signals;
• Drive experimentation and A/B testing to measure impact and iterate on models and features;
• Leverage LLMs to enhance content understanding and feature extraction;
• Optimize systems for performance, latency, and scalability across high-traffic environments;
• Contribute to engineering best practices, including testing, observability, and CI/CD;
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and analysts to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.

• 2–4 Years of industry experience applying machine learning methods, focused on recommender systems, search, ranking, or personalization;
• Strong proficiency in Python for production ML systems;
• Experience with A/B testing and experimentation frameworks;
• Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure and containerized environments;
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases;
• Degree in computer science, machine learning, statistics, or equivalent work experience.

• Comprehensive healthcare plans for the employee and family, paid by Dow Jones;
• 30 Days of paid holidays per year;
• Possibility to work remotely for 3 months per year and one week remotely per quarter;
• Meal benefit of 171€/month on top of salary;
• Dow Jones contributes 2% of pensionable salary and matches employee contributions up to 3%;
• Life insurance;
• Well-being allowance of 185€ per quarter, ClassPass, Spring Health, and other resources;
• Family care benefits and caregiving support;
• Hone and LinkedIn Learning courses;
• Employee referral program;
• Base pay range: 55,000 € - 70,000 €;
• Non-Union role.