AI-Powered Cyber Experience Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work options

Healthcare & 401k

Job summary

Yahoo is seeking a Paranoids Cyber Experience Engineer (Finance) to build AI-native security products for Yahoo employees, shipping agents, skills, and tools that simplify security work. You’ll scale AI tooling, manage internal marketplaces, and influence where you don’t own the solution.

You’ll collaborate with engineers, product and security teams to ensure user-focused outcomes, iterate with real users, and document standards. This role emphasizes practical delivery and security-minded UX.

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.
• Advocate for the developer experience
• Own our AI tooling infrastructure.
• Work closely with the user.
• Document so others can build

Skills

LLMs and agentic AI tools

Python

TypeScript

APIs & MCPs

AI safety & reliability

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

MySQL

Git & GitHub

Technical writing

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Jira

Linear

Google Workspace

Job description

Yahoo is seeking a Paranoids Cyber Experience Engineer (Finance) to build AI-native security products for Yahoo employees, shipping agents, skills, and tools that simplify security work. You’ll scale AI tooling, manage internal marketplaces, and influence where you don’t own the solution.

You’ll collaborate with engineers, product and security teams to ensure user-focused outcomes, iterate with real users, and document standards. This role emphasizes practical delivery and security-minded UX.