AI-Native Security Experience Engineer

Yahoo Holdings Inc. in; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Yahoo is seeking a Paranoids Cyber Experience Engineer to build AI-native security products for Yahoo employees. You will ship agents, skills, and tools, scale AI tooling, and advocate for the developer experience across teams.

You will work with engineers and product partners to turn prototypes into durable products, define AI-native functions in security, and ship improvements with real users.

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).

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 tools

Python

TypeScript

APIs & MCPs

User-centric design

HTML/CSS/JS

MySQL

Git / GitHub

Technical writing

Collaboration tools (Linear, Jira)

Tools

Git

GitHub

Jira

Linear

Job description

Yahoo is seeking a Paranoids Cyber Experience Engineer to build AI-native security products for Yahoo employees. You will ship agents, skills, and tools, scale AI tooling, and advocate for the developer experience across teams.

You will work with engineers and product partners to turn prototypes into durable products, define AI-native functions in security, and ship improvements with real users.