Staff Design Engineer, AI Product

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🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

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Mozilla

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1998

👥 B2C

🔒 Cybersecurity

B2C • Cybersecurity • Software

Mozilla is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting an open and accessible internet. They are the makers of the popular Firefox browser, which emphasizes user privacy, speed, and control. Mozilla also offers a range of products that focus on internet security and privacy, including Mozilla VPN, Firefox Relay, and Mozilla Monitor. Additionally, the organization is involved in open-source projects, AI innovation, and advocating for digital rights. Mozilla aims to empower users with trustworthy technology and policies that protect privacy, support open-source AI development, and foster accountability for tech companies.

📋 Description

• Build functional prototypes and product experiments directly in the Thunderbolt codebase • Translate ambiguous product ideas, user workflows, partner feedback, and enterprise needs into clear, usable product experiences • Define interaction patterns for AI-powered chat, search, research, workflow automation, knowledge retrieval, and enterprise administration • Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping and implementation while maintaining quality, usability, security, accessibility, and maintainability • Partner with product, design, engineering, and enterprise-facing teams to explore, validate, and refine product direction • Contribute production-quality front-end code where appropriate • Determine whether prototypes should be discarded, refined, generalized, or productionized • Improve the usability, accessibility, consistency, and polish of the Thunderbolt user experience • Develop reusable components, interface patterns, or design-system elements • Bring a user-centered perspective to technical and product discussions involving AI behavior, trust, transparency, permissions, and workflow clarity • Consider enterprise needs including data sensitivity, user control, administrative visibility, auditability, and security expectations • Contribute to a product culture valuing experimentation, maintainability, responsible AI use, and thoughtful user experience

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in design engineering, front-end engineering, UX engineering, product design with strong technical implementation experience, or a closely related role • Demonstrated leadership and impact beyond individual deliverables • Strong front-end engineering skills with modern JavaScript or TypeScript and component-based frameworks • Experience building prototypes or production features directly in an application codebase • Strong product and interaction design judgment, including usability, accessibility, information architecture, workflow design, and product polish • Experience designing, prototyping, or building AI-enabled product experiences such as chat, search, research tools, agents, automation, knowledge interfaces, or workflow tools • Experience translating ambiguous product concepts into usable workflows, prototypes, and shipped product experiences • Experience providing technical or product leadership through mentoring, cross-functional coordination, reusable patterns, project ownership, or influence beyond individual deliverables • Practical awareness of AI, privacy, security, and regulatory considerations, including transparency, user control, permissions, data handling, and trust • Familiarity with frameworks such as the EU AI Act, Cyber Resilience Act, HIPAA, or comparable requirements • Strong communication and collaboration skills • Portfolio, case studies, shipped work, or examples demonstrating design-to-code execution, interactive prototypes, or product experience improvements • Bonus: experience with enterprise software, developer tools, productivity tools, collaboration tools, self-hosted software, design systems, component libraries, user research, usability testing, open-source, or highly collaborative engineering environments • Applicants must reside in and have permanent work authorization for the specified country locations; visa sponsorship is not provided

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work & schedule flexibility • Company-provided laptop • Annual bonus program • Monthly remote work stipend • Annual professional development stipend • Access to Coursera learning platform • Industry conferences • Company all-hands and team gatherings • 24 days PTO per year (prorated) • Your birthday • Year-end company shutdown • 9 wellbeing days • Public holidays • Other paid leave • Quarterly wellbeing stipend for personal / family activities • 401(k) / RRSP contributions • Health, dental, & vision insurance • Disability insurance • Life insurance • Employee assistance program • Paid parental leave • Paid sick days