Senior Engineering Manager, AI Product (Thunderbolt)

3 weeks, 3 days 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 implementation tradeoffs.
  • Partner with product and technical leadership to turn product direction, AI strategy, and user experience goals into 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, maintainability, security awareness, and release readiness.
  • Build product and architectural context across AI-enabled workflows, integrations, and customer-controlled architectures.
  • Collaborate across product, design, enterprise-facing teams, and technical leadership to balance speed, privacy, quality, and long-term sustainability.
  • Lead hiring, onboarding, and resource planning as the team grows.
  • Help 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.
  • Track record of leading a team that shipped polished, top-tier products with 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 comparable frameworks.
  • Experience with enterprise software, regulated environments, or similarly complex products involving security, privacy, compliance readiness, administration, integrations, and customer-controlled deployment models.
  • Practical experience with local-first, offline-capable, self-hosted, hybrid, on-premise, air-gapped, or other customer-controlled architectures.
  • Experience improving engineering practices related to 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.
  • Preferred: experience in open-source or maintainer-style engineering environments.
  • Preferred: experience with compliance or security standards such as SOC 2, HIPAA, or ISO 27001.
  • Preferred: experience helping take a product from zero to one in a startup or new product initiative.
  • Applicants must reside in and have permanent work authorization for the specified country location(s).
  • No visa sponsorship is provided.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $215,000-$240,000 USD in the US or $190,000-$220,000 CAD in Canada.
  • 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.
  • 401(k) / RRSP contributions, health, dental, and vision insurance, disability and life insurance, employee assistance program, paid parental leave, and paid sick days.

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