Role overview
Job Description
Hearst Television (HTV) is hiring a Newsroom AI and Automation Engineer. The ideal candidate will have a journalism/newsroom background and be passionate about Generative AI technology. You’ll 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 we're looking for
- 2–3+ 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 (e.g.OpenAI, 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.
Values in Action
At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That’s why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization that fosters collaboration and open communication, ensuring that the content we create is authentic, accurate, and connected to the communities we serve.
Benefits
Hearst's 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 family's needs
Salary
The salary for this role is $95,000-$100,000. 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.
About Us
Hearst Television (HTV) owns and/or operates 35 television and two radio stations serving 27 media markets across 39 states reaching over 22 million U.S. television households. HTV is recognized as one of the industry's premier broadcasting companies and has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism, industry innovation, and community service.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. we do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national, origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.