Newsroom AI and Automation Engineer

Job Overview

Hearst Television (HTV) is hiring a Newsroom AI and Automation Engineer. The role requires a journalism / newsroom background with a passion for Generative AI technology. You will develop newsroom tools and reader / viewer-facing experiences that harness generative AI and automation responsibly to improve reporting, speed up workflows, and expand coverage of local communities. This is a full-time, in-person role based in one of HTV's markets or in Washington, DC or New York City.

What You'll 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

Diversity Statement

At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. We believe in being an organization as diverse and varied as the audience we reach, ensuring our content is compassionate and representative of the communities we serve.

Benefits

Salary

The salary for this role is $95,000–$100,000. Base pay is dependent on transferable skills, experience, business needs, market demands, and geographic location. The range is subject to change.

About Us

Hearst Television (HTV) owns and 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 earned numerous awards for distinguished journalism, industry innovation, and community service.

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