AI-Driven Security Experience Engineer

Yahoo Holdings Inc.; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work

Job summary

Yahoo is building AI-native security products to streamline employee work and reduce friction. You will ship agents, skills, and tools that make security tasks fast, clear, and obvious while scaling our AI tooling and shared systems.

You will advocate for the developer experience and collaborate with Paranoids engineers to design easier, enforceable solutions. You will work with general employees, developers, and call center agents, writing clear docs and building reusable components.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building with LLMs and agentic AI tools, including prompt engineering, agent orchestration, and authoring reusable skills/agents.
• Proficient in a programming language like Python or TypeScript.
• Experience integrating APIs and Model Context Protocols (MCPs) to connect distributed systems and automate operational tasks.
• Proven track record of evaluating, validating, and refining AI-generated outputs for accuracy, safety, and security.
• Comfortable building lightweight UIs (HTML/CSS, JavaScript) for the products you ship.
• Familiarity with MySQL for database querying and management.
• Comfortable partnering with engineering teams you don't sit on, and making a clear, evidence-based case for the user.
• Comfortable with Git and GitHub as the source of truth for code and content.
• Clear technical writing, the kind that lets someone else use or extend what you built.
• Comfortable in modern collaboration tools (Linear, Jira, Google Workspace). Prior Linear use is a plus, not a requirement.
• Exposure to or curiosity about security work.

Responsibilities

• Build employee-facing products using AI.
• Design, build, and ship agents, skills, and tools that help Yahoo employees navigate security without friction.
• Advocate for the developer experience and push for easier to meet requirements.
• Own our AI tooling infrastructure and refine AI outputs for reliability and accuracy.
• Work closely with user segments from general employees to developers to call center agents.
• Document so others can build with clear guides and standards.

Skills

LLMs & agents

Python/TypeScript

APIs & MCPs

AI safety

UI basics

MySQL

Git/GitHub

Technical writing

Collaboration tools

Security awareness

Tools

GitHub

Jira

Linear

HTML/CSS/JS

MySQL

Job description

Yahoo is building AI-native security products to streamline employee work and reduce friction. You will ship agents, skills, and tools that make security tasks fast, clear, and obvious while scaling our AI tooling and shared systems.

You will advocate for the developer experience and collaborate with Paranoids engineers to design easier, enforceable solutions. You will work with general employees, developers, and call center agents, writing clear docs and building reusable components.