Yost wrote for the TV sitcom ''
Herman's Head and the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. In 2002, he created the television drama series Boomtown. He created the short-lived NBC drama Raines (2007). Yost teamed with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, along with two of his fellow Boomtown
writers Michelle Ashford and Larry Andries, to write and direct episodes of the HBO miniseries The Pacific''. Yost is the creator and executive producer of the
FX series
Justified which premiered in 2010. He was an executive producer on the FX show
The Americans which ran from 2013 to 2018. In 2014, Yost was attached to an adaptation of the
Alex Kershaw book
Avenue of Spies for
WGN America. In 2016, he took over as head writer and executive producer of the
Amazon Studios series
Sneaky Pete. In May 2021,
Apple TV+ announced that Yost would serve as showrunner and executive producer for the science fiction series
Silo based on the
dystopian book series of the same name by
Hugh Howey. ==Awards and nominations==