Chief Architect

Responsibilities

• Strategic Architecture & AI Transformation: Own the 3-5 year vision for Yahoo Mail. Lead the transition from deterministic legacy systems to non-deterministic, agentic architectures, ensuring that AI is woven into the fabric of our storage, search, and delivery layers.
• Internet-Scale Systems Design: Architect distributed systems handling billions of daily events. Optimize high-scale data pipelines to support real-time RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and agentic reasoning at the edge.
• AI-Augmented Engineering Excellence: Define the standards for AI-assisted engineering across the organization. Proactively identify opportunities to replace manual architectural bottlenecks with AI-driven automation, from code generation to automated root-cause analysis of system failures.
• Technical Governance & AI Oversight: Chair architecture reviews. Establish the rigorous validation frameworks required to ensure AI-generated architectural patterns meet Yahoo's standards for security, cost-efficiency, and 99.99% availability.
• Executive Influence: Act as a trusted advisor to the ELT. Frame technical investments not just as "infrastructure builds," but as "capability accelerators" driven by AI-augmented oversight.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15+ years of engineering experience, with a track record of leading architecture for systems with 100M+ users.
• 3-5+ years of experience leading AI/LLM-led transformations, specifically in moving large-scale enterprises toward agentic or autonomous system behaviors.
• Deep expertise in managing the intersection of traditional distributed systems and AI platforms (e.g., Vertex AI, SageMaker, or custom LLM orchestration).
• A commitment to experimentation with AI-driven developer productivity tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor) to lead the organization by example.
• Demonstrated ability to influence at the VP/SVP level and represent Yahoo in external technical forums.
• Experience with multi-cloud resiliency for AI workloads.
• Expertise in prompt engineering for complex system diagnostics and the governance of AI-agent permissions within a regulated environment.

Benefits

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. A Little About Us Yahoo Mail is the second largest email provider in the world, serving hundreds of millions of users at staggering scale. We are undergoing a massive Digital Transformation, moving toward an AI-native and Agentic future. This role is the technical North Star for that journey, defining how we architect systems that are not just "cloud-native," but "AI-first."

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