AI-Driven Security Experience Engineer

Yahoo Holdings Inc. in; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Yahoo Holdings Inc. is seeking a Paranoids Cyber Experience Engineer to build AI-native security products for Yahoo employees. You will ship agents, skills, and tools that simplify security work, scale AI tooling, and shape how security is experienced across teams.

As the Paranoids' developer advocate, you will collaborate with engineers and other teams to improve developer experience, design for users, and own the AI tooling infrastructure while driving adoption and reliability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building with LLMs and agentic AI tools.
• 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.
• Advocate for the developer experience
• Own our AI tooling infrastructure.
• Work closely with the user.
• Document so others can build

Skills

LLMs & agentic AI

Python/TypeScript

APIs & MCPs

AI output evaluation

HTML/CSS/JS UI

MySQL querying

GitHub

Technical writing

Tools

GitHub

Jira

Google Workspace

Linear

Job description

Yahoo Holdings Inc. is seeking a Paranoids Cyber Experience Engineer to build AI-native security products for Yahoo employees. You will ship agents, skills, and tools that simplify security work, scale AI tooling, and shape how security is experienced across teams.

As the Paranoids' developer advocate, you will collaborate with engineers and other teams to improve developer experience, design for users, and own the AI tooling infrastructure while driving adoption and reliability.