Senior AI/ML Architect: Agentic Personalization Platform

102 Yahoo Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 161,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work options

Competitive compensation + benefits

Job summary

Yahoo is seeking a Senior Principal AI/ML Architect to define the architectural vision for agentic, assistive, and personalization intelligence across Yahoo Mail and adjacent properties.

You will translate business opportunities into cohesive AI platform strategy, shape engineering standards, and mentor senior engineers while leading cross-functional alignment with Product, Data Science, and Infra teams.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with deep AI/ML expertise.
• Proven track record architecting large-scale AI platforms.
• Strong expertise in distributed ML, LLMs, personalization and ranking systems.
• Experience influencing architecture across multiple teams or BU.

Responsibilities

• Define reference architectures for multi-agent systems and tool-augmented LLM orchestration.
• Lead personalization platform evolution and real-time ranking strategies.
• Drive governance, engineering standards and ML lifecycle governance.
• Mentor principal and senior engineers and align cross-functional teams.

Skills

AI/ML architecture

Distributed ML

LLMs / Generative AI

Personalization & ranking

Production inference infra

Leadership & mentoring

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related

Tools

LLM hosting platforms

GPU clusters

Job description

Yahoo is seeking a Senior Principal AI/ML Architect to define the architectural vision for agentic, assistive, and personalization intelligence across Yahoo Mail and adjacent properties.

You will translate business opportunities into cohesive AI platform strategy, shape engineering standards, and mentor senior engineers while leading cross-functional alignment with Product, Data Science, and Infra teams.