Chief Architect
Core
Define the 3–5 year technical vision for Yahoo Mail, leading the transition from deterministic legacy systems to AI-first, agentic architectures for storage, search, and delivery.
Role type
Chief Architect (AI & Distributed Systems)
Builds
Yahoo Mail consumer inbox and underlying AI-native distributed systems
Domain
Internet-scale email services and AI/LLM platforms
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Strategic architecture vision, distributed systems design, AI/LLM transformation leadership, AI-assisted engineering standards, technical governance, executive influence
Preferred skills
Multi-cloud resiliency for AI workloads, prompt engineering for system diagnostics, governance of AI-agent permissions
Technologies
Vertex AI, SageMaker, custom LLM orchestration, Copilot, Cursor
Responsibilities
Own the 3–5 year vision for Yahoo Mail, architect distributed systems handling billions of daily events, define standards for AI-assisted engineering, chair architecture reviews, act as a trusted advisor to the ELT
Seniority
Executive, strategy & mentorship