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[Remote] Staff AI Operations Engineer / Builder

Worldwide Salaried Open

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Yahoo is a leading consumer email platform with over 200 million monthly users, currently undergoing a transformation to become AI-native. They are seeking a Staff AI Operations Engineer to architect and implement AI-driven operational systems that enhance productivity and streamline workflows across the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and deploy full-stack internal AI products, from secure backend LLM integrations and agentic workflow orchestration to responsive frontend operating interfaces
  • Define the foundational engineering patterns, guardrails, and platform architectures for reliability, data permissions, enterprise privacy, and observability across all internal AI systems
  • Establish automated LLM evaluation (Evals), output validation frameworks, and human-in-the-loop validation flows to proactively mitigate inaccuracies or hallucinations in operational systems
  • Incorporate state-of-the-art developer frameworks—including AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, and advanced orchestration patterns—to abstract operational workflows into reusable API layers
  • Design, deploy, and continuously optimize multi-agent orchestrations and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines that ingest contextual product metadata to synthesize real-time business context
  • Collaborate horizontally with Product, Engineering, Design, and Executive leadership to map physical organizational processes into autonomous workflows, serving as the technical authority on internal AI capabilities
  • Mentor and uplevel adjacent engineering, product, and operational squads on prompt engineering, structured LLM interactions, and automated workflow adoption
  • Turn highly ambiguous, fragmented data sources (e.g., Jira trackers, Google Workspace documents, analytics dashboards) into structured, queryable knowledge networks

Skills

  • 8+ years of software engineering, product management, technical systems-building, or platform architecture experience with a focus on full-stack application development
  • Professional experience designing, implementing, and evaluating LLM-backed applications, multi-agent frameworks, RAG architectures, or automated internal operations systems
  • Deep familiarity with production-grade AI development platforms (e.g., AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI) and modern coding assistants (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) to accelerate software delivery cycles
  • Demonstrated experience building custom API integrations with enterprise platforms (such as Jira, Confluence, and Google Workspace) to automate manual processes
  • High-agency ownership with a proven track record of delivering architectural strategy and shipping complex, operational platforms in highly ambiguous environments
  • Strong proficiency in modern software engineering stacks, including Python, TypeScript, React, Node.js, and relational/non-relational data systems
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting complex technical architectures directly to senior stakeholders
  • Experience deploying and tuning open-source agentic frameworks or managing large-scale internal copilot environments
  • Experience in Product Operations, Business Operations, Strategy, or Technical Program Management within high-scale consumer tech organizations
  • Strong background in cloud infrastructure, data pipelining (SQL, ETL processes), and secure enterprise access control management
  • Commitment to continuous learning, technological experimentation, and optimizing organizational systems through automation

Benefits

  • Incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions
  • Healthcare
  • A great 401k
  • Backup childcare
  • Education stipends
  • Flexible hybrid work options that our employees love
  • 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome

Company Overview

  • Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Verizon Media. It was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.yahoo.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Yahoo has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 197 in 2023, 646 in 2022, 381 in 2021, 463 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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