AI Newsroom Developer

Responsibilities

• Leverage AI in the building of utility products for consumers.
• Build, evaluate, pilot and integrate generative AI and automation tools, including skills and agents, into the newsroom.
• Lead training sessions and provide support for editors and reporters using AI tools.
• Engineer reliable prompts and system instructions; evaluate and fine tune outputs for accuracy, fairness, and clarity.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams on internal tools to improve efficiency and enhance storytelling.
• Ensure AI applications align with ethical journalism standards and company AI policies.
• Establish guardrails for accuracy, sourcing, transparency, and human oversight of AI-assisted content.
• Audit and monitor newsroom AI use, providing regular updates to editorial leadership.
• Serve as a point person for AI use across the newsroom.
• Partner with editorial leads to identify reporting beats where AI-assisted workflows can expand coverage (e.g., civic meeting monitoring, local guides, data-heavy investigations).

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience with large language models and automatic speech recognition models, as well as expertise in prompt engineering.
• Demonstrated experience building agentic systems that go beyond a simple chat interface.
• Familiarity with newsroom AI applications for transcription, summarization and translation.
• Technical literacy: ability to work with APIs, structured data, or scripting languages (Python, JavaScript).
• Excellent communication and training skills; able to translate technical concepts for nontechnical colleagues.
• Ability to self-manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously, meeting tight deadlines without compromising on quality.
• Commitment to ethical journalism, transparency, and accuracy.

About the Houston Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle, recognized for its Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism, serves its 2.3 million residents with content and marketing solutions across two of Houston’s largest websites — HoustonChronicle.com and Chron.com, along with our magazine, television and newspaper brands. Our mission is to spark conversations that inspire action to create a better Houston.

About Hearst Newspapers

With 2,500 employees across the nation, HNP encompasses a network of 24 daily and 52 weekly publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and Albany Times Union, several top digital-only news and lifestyle sites, marketing services businesses, and entertainment businesses such as King Features Syndicate. At HNP, we are investing in new and innovative ways to tell stories – growing newsrooms, diversifying tools, evolving platforms – to support the millions of people who trust us each month to help them make decisions, take action and be inspired.