Ai Engineer

AI Engineer TheMarker | Tel Aviv | Hybrid

About Us
TheMarker Haaretz Group, is one of Israel's leading business and financial media brands, delivering trusted journalism, market insights, and high-quality digital content to a broad and influential audience. As part of a leading media group, we connect businesses, brands, and professionals with valuable information, engaged audiences, and meaningful marketing opportunities. We combine editorial excellence, digital innovation, and data-driven technologies to create value for our readers and business partners. We are now expanding our AI capabilities and looking for a passionate, hands-on AI Engineer to help shape the future of intelligent media experiences.

About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to build and lead AI-driven projects from concept to production, with a direct impact on digital products reaching millions of readers. You will work closely with our Backend and Data Science teams to design, develop, and deploy innovative AI solutions that transform content discovery, editorial workflows, and internal operations. From LLM-powered content recommendations and semantic search to intelligent editorial assistants and autonomous agents, you will play a key role in bringing practical AI innovation into our products and newsroom.

What You'll Do
• Design, develop, and deploy production-ready AI and LLM-powered features, including content recommendations, article summarization, automated tagging, semantic search, editorial tools, and workflow automation.
• Build and integrate RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector search, AI agents, and tool-calling capabilities.
• Develop backend microservices using Java and Python.
• Deploy and maintain services in Kubernetes environments using ArgoCD and GitOps practices.
• Implement AI evaluation frameworks, quality monitoring, and model usage cost optimization.
• Collaborate with Backend, Data Science, Product, and Editorial teams to translate business needs into scalable AI solutions.
• Promote the adoption of AI-powered development tools and best practices across engineering teams.
• Explore emerging AI technologies and turn promising ideas into real-world applications.
• What We're Looking For
• At least 1-2 year of hands-on software development experience in Java or Python. Experience with both is a strong advantage.
• Practical experience working with AI tools and LLM APIs, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini, including prompt engineering and integration into applications.
• Familiarity with backend development and REST APIs.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD workflows.
• Strong technical curiosity, a proactive mindset, and the ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Good technical English communication skills. Nice to Have
• Experience with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Docker.
• Familiarity with LangChain, LlamaIndex, Spring AI, or similar AI frameworks.
• Experience with vector databases and search technologies such as pgvector, Elasticsearch, Pinecone, or Qdrant.
• Experience with AI coding agents and development tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.
• Background in Machine Learning, NLP, or Hebrew-language text processing.
• Experience in media, digital content, or e-commerce environments. Why Join Us?
• Real impact: Build AI-powered products and tools that reach millions of readers.
• Innovation from the ground up: Help establish and shape AI capabilities across a leading media organization.
• End-to-end ownership: Take ideas from experimentation through development and production.
• Modern technology: Work with cutting-edge AI tools, cloud technologies, and scalable backend systems.
• Room to innovate: Enjoy technical freedom, meaningful challenges, and opportunities to influence engineering decisions.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work alongside talented professionals in engineering, data science, product, and journalism. Ready to Build the Future of AI-Powered Media?If you're passionate about Generative AI, enjoy solving real-world challenges, and want to see your work make a meaningful impact, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now and help us shape the next generation of intelligent media experiences at TheMarker Haaretz. careers@themarker.com