AI-Powered Cyber Experience Engineer

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

Job summary

Yahoo is seeking a Paranoids Cyber Experience Engineer to build AI-native security experiences for Yahoo employees. This hands-on role on a small security team ships agents, skills, and tools that reduce friction and improve safety.

You will advocate for the developer experience, own AI tooling infrastructure, and collaborate with engineers across the company. This hybrid role offers flexibility and a chance to shape an AI-native function inside a security organization.

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. Take a concept to a working prototype fast, then iterate with real users.
• Advocate for the developer experience
• Own our AI tooling infrastructure.
• Work closely with the user.
• Document so others can build

Skills

LLMs & agent tools

Python/TypeScript

APIs & MCPs

AI outputs evaluation

HTML/CSS/JS

MySQL

Git & GitHub

technical writing

collaboration tools (Linear, Jira)

Tools

GitHub

Jira

Google Workspace

Job description

Yahoo is seeking a Paranoids Cyber Experience Engineer to build AI-native security experiences for Yahoo employees. This hands-on role on a small security team ships agents, skills, and tools that reduce friction and improve safety.

You will advocate for the developer experience, own AI tooling infrastructure, and collaborate with engineers across the company. This hybrid role offers flexibility and a chance to shape an AI-native function inside a security organization.