Principal Data Intelligence Architect, AI Platforms

Yahoo; United States; Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work

Job summary

Yahoo is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the architecture and development of AI-powered data intelligence platforms at scale.

You will define technical direction, build reusable platform capabilities, and drive adoption of RAG and agentic patterns across engineering, analytics, governance, and business teams. This is a senior IC role requiring vision, execution, and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building distributed systems and large-scale data platforms.
• Degree in CS, AI/ML, Engineering, Math, or related field.
• Production experience with batch and streaming processing.

Responsibilities

• Define technical vision and architecture for Yahoo's AI-powered data platform.
• Architect petabyte-scale batch and streaming systems.
• Build production RAG and multi-agent systems.
• Establish evaluation frameworks for retrieval quality and safety.
• Drive adoption of RAG and agentic patterns across engineers.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

Technical leadership

Communication

Education

CS/AI/Engineering degree

Tools

Kafka

Beam/Dataflow

Spark

Job description

Yahoo is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the architecture and development of AI-powered data intelligence platforms at scale.

You will define technical direction, build reusable platform capabilities, and drive adoption of RAG and agentic patterns across engineering, analytics, governance, and business teams. This is a senior IC role requiring vision, execution, and collaboration.