Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead research, architecture, and production deployment of large-scale algorithms for budget pacing, bid optimization, and marketplace balancing in Yahoo’s DSP. Apply control theory, optimization, and machine learning to real-time systems, while establishing AI-augmented research and engineering workflows. Own multi-quarter initiatives, define evaluation frameworks, guide technical strategy, collaborate with product and engineering leadership, mentor scientists and engineers, and communicate complex research and architectural decisions to executives.

Leads growth, engagement, and subscription revenue across Yahoo Sports products, including Fantasy, community, content, and future launches. Owns acquisition, onboarding, activation, conversion, retention, churn reduction, referrals, and subscriber perks. Partners with Marketing, Product, Engineering, Editorial, Business Development, and executive leadership to launch products, analyze cohort and engagement data, run experiments, and deliver growth outcomes across teams.

Design, build, and deploy high-throughput ML and LLM-powered personalization and agentic systems at consumer scale. Process petabyte-scale data, optimize real-time inference, implement resilient fallback paths, and balance latency, cost, and model quality while collaborating across engineering and product teams.

Own vision and strategy for a core internal developer platform (Cloud Runtime, Security, Database, Key-Value, Messaging). Partner with engineering and stakeholders to define MVPs, prioritize capabilities, measure product metrics, reduce cognitive load, cut costs, improve performance/reliability, and drive internal adoption through feedback, analytics, and cross-functional collaboration.

Lead full-lifecycle M&A, divestitures, joint ventures, and strategic investments. Source and prioritize targets, build financial models and valuations, run cross-functional diligence, draft transaction documents, and support integration or separation. Produce executive- and board-ready materials, use AI tools to accelerate workstreams, and manage stakeholders and advisors from sourcing through close.

Lead the architectural development and migration of Yahoo Mail infrastructure to Google Cloud, collaborating with teams to define requirements, optimize solutions, and ensure alignment with business objectives and standards.

Lead the architecture and development of Yahoo’s AI-powered data intelligence platform at petabyte scale. Build distributed batch and streaming systems, production RAG and multi-agent applications, semantic metadata integrations, and evaluation frameworks for retrieval quality, agent accuracy, hallucination prevention, and operational safety. Establish enterprise AI reference architectures, drive adoption across teams, validate AI-generated code and agent plans, and influence technical strategy across engineering, governance, infrastructure, product, analytics, and business stakeholders.

Own end-to-end technical success for enterprise data partners, from sandbox onboarding through production optimization. Serve as the primary technical contact, maintain API reliability and SLA compliance, monitor integrations, troubleshoot distributed and asynchronous systems, translate partner needs into technical specifications, and collaborate with engineering teams to improve APIs, streaming pipelines, and data contracts. Create documentation, playbooks, architecture diagrams, and escalation processes while communicating effectively with technical and executive stakeholders.

The Senior Software Engineer will architect and optimize AI-powered developer tools, enhance the SDLC, collaborate across teams, and mentor peers to improve engineering productivity.

Design, implement, and scale ML-based solutions for search and advertising; define data collection, evaluation, and production serving strategies; analyze data to inform development; communicate cross-functionally; produce technical reports; and stay current with advances in LLMs, vision models, and generative AI.