Senior Engineering Manager, AI Product (Thunderbolt)

1 month, 3 weeks ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Mozilla

Mozilla

Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, is a non-profit organization ensuring an open, safe, and accessible internet for all users worldwide.

Internet Software & Services
251-1K
Founded 2005
$2M raised

Description

  • Lead engineering execution by clarifying priorities, ownership, timelines, risks, dependencies, and quality expectations.
  • Manage engineers and contractors through coaching, feedback, prioritization, performance support, and team development.
  • Stay close to the codebase by contributing code, reviewing technical work, and evaluating architectural and implementation tradeoffs.
  • Partner with product and technical leadership to turn product direction, AI strategy, and user experience goals into coordinated engineering plans.
  • Establish planning, review, release, and follow-through practices that improve predictability and reduce bottlenecks.
  • Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, documentation, reliability, security awareness, maintainability, and release readiness.
  • Build product and architectural context across AI-enabled workflows, integrations, and customer-controlled deployment models.
  • Collaborate across product, design, enterprise-facing teams, and technical leadership to balance speed, quality, privacy, and enterprise readiness.
  • Lead hiring, onboarding, and resource planning as the engineering team grows.
  • Help the team scale Thunderbolt from an incubation-stage product into a reliable enterprise-ready open-source AI product.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of professional software development experience, including significant senior engineering leadership or complex product delivery experience.
  • 5+ years of experience managing technical teams, including senior engineers or senior individual contributors.
  • Experience leading a team that shipped polished, top-tier products held to a high standard of craft.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous product and technical direction into clear plans, ownership models, and delivery momentum.
  • Technical fluency with AI-enabled products, including LLM applications, RAG workflows, agents, enterprise search, automation, on-device AI, or AI evaluation.
  • Experience delivering complex applications across desktop, web, and mobile using Tauri, Electron, React Native, or similar frameworks.
  • Experience with enterprise software, regulated environments, or similarly complex technical products involving security, privacy, compliance readiness, administration, integrations, and customer-controlled deployment models.
  • Experience with local-first, offline-capable, self-hosted, hybrid, on-premise, air-gapped, or other customer-controlled architectures.
  • Experience improving engineering practices such as technical planning, code review, release readiness, testing, documentation, CI/CD, maintainability, or technical debt management.
  • Excellent communication skills around technical prioritization, release risk, ownership, quality expectations, and tradeoffs.
  • Experience working in open-source or maintainer-style engineering environments is a plus.
  • Experience with compliance or security standards such as SOC 2, HIPAA, or ISO 27001 is a plus.
  • Experience helping take a product from zero to one in a startup or new product initiative is a plus.
  • Applicants must reside in and have permanent work authorization for the country location(s) specified in the posting.
  • This is a full-time, fully remote position.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary of $190,000 - $220,000 CAD in Canada, benchmarked to local markets.
  • Fully remote work with schedule flexibility.
  • Company-provided laptop.
  • Annual bonus program.
  • Monthly remote work stipend.
  • Annual professional development stipend, plus access to Coursera, industry conferences, and company gatherings.
  • 24 days of PTO per year, plus your birthday, year-end company shutdown, 9 wellbeing days, public holidays, and other paid leave.
  • Quarterly wellbeing stipend for personal or family activities.
  • RRSP contributions, health/dental/vision insurance, disability insurance, and life insurance.
  • Employee assistance program, paid parental leave, and paid sick days.

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