Drive Cultural Transformation: Lead the evolution from AI-curious to AI-native engineering practices across all relevant teams
Champion Change Management: Convert skeptics into advocates through data-driven demonstrations of value and hands-on enablement including Proof of concept
Tool Evaluation & Selection: Continuously assess emerging AI tools (Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, etc.) and make data-driven recommendations based on Mail legacy Infrastructure
Measure & Accelerate Adoption: Establish KPIs, track progress of adoption, and implement interventions to accelerate uptake
Build Communities of Practice: Lead and create forums for knowledge sharing, celebrate wins, and foster peer-to-peer learning
Architecture & Integration: Design technical frameworks for integrating AI tools into existing development workflows and CI/CD pipelines
Virtual Engineer Implementation: Lead proof-of-concepts for coding agents in standardized tasks across various mail teams.
Security & Compliance: Partner with Paranoids (Security) and Legal teams to ensure AI tool usage protects IP and meets compliance requirements
Technical Standards: Establish best practices, guidelines, and guardrails for AI-assisted development
Performance Optimization: Analyze and optimize the technical performance and cost-efficiency of AI tool deployments
Innovation Pipeline: Maintain awareness of cutting-edge AI developments and identify opportunities for competitive advantage
Remove Barriers: Identify and systematically eliminate technical, cultural, and process obstacles to AI adoption
Communicate Impact: Regularly present adoption metrics, success stories, and ROI to engineering leadership and executives
Requirements
Have experience with latest AI tech - Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot
10+ years of software engineering experience with proven expertise across multiple programming languages and paradigms
Deep hands-on experience with AI-powered development tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.)
Strong understanding of LLMs, prompt engineering, and AI model capabilities/limitations
Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, and modern software development workflows
Track record of evaluating and implementing new technologies at scale
Proven ability to drive technical initiatives across large engineering organizations
Experience leading without authority and influencing senior technical leaders
Track record of successful change management in engineering contexts
Demonstrated ability to convert technical innovations into business value
Experience driving tool adoption across diverse technical teams
Strong communication skills with the ability to create compelling narratives for different audiences
Patience and empathy when working with skeptics and late adopters
Benefits
Flexible schedule
Additional Information
Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It's the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.
Yahoo Mail is seeking a Senior Principal/Staff Software Engineer to lead our AI adoption initiative across the Engineering organization. You will be the driving force behind improving our 400+ engineers productivity by transforming development practices embedded with AI.
As the lead of AI initiatives in Engineering, you will orchestrate an engineering-wide transformation that makes AI-driven productivity a core engineering competency. This role requires someone who can navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape, drive adoption across diverse teams, and deliver measurable business impact.
Yahoo · US