Senior Engineering Manager, AI Product – Thunderbolt

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $215k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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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

• Lead engineering execution by clarifying priorities, ownership, timelines, risks, dependencies, and quality expectations. • Manage engineers and contractors, including coaching, feedback, prioritization, performance support, and team development. • Stay close to the codebase by contributing code, reviewing technical work, evaluating tradeoffs, and helping the team maintain momentum and quality. • Partner with technical and product leadership to turn product direction, AI strategy, user experience goals, and technical priorities 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 strong product and architectural context across AI-enabled workflows, integrations, local-first or customer-controlled architectures, and release requirements. • Partner across product, design, enterprise-facing teams, and technical leadership to balance speed, user experience, privacy, quality, enterprise readiness, and long-term sustainability. • Lead hiring, onboarding, and resource planning as the Thunderbolt engineering team grows. • Help Thunderbolt scale from an incubation-stage product into a reliable, enterprise-ready open-source AI product.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of professional software development experience, including significant experience in senior engineering leadership or complex product delivery roles. • 5+ years of experience managing technical teams, including senior engineers or senior individual contributors. • A track record of leading a team that shipped polished, top-tier products held to a genuine standard of craft. • Strong ability to translate ambiguous product and technical direction into clear plans, ownership models, and delivery momentum. • Technical fluency with AI-enabled products, including the ability to evaluate tradeoffs across areas such as LLM applications, RAG workflows, agents, enterprise search, automation, on-device AI, or AI evaluation. • Demonstrated experience delivering complex applications across multiple platforms, such as desktop, web, and mobile, using technologies such as Tauri, Electron, React Native, or comparable frameworks. • Experience with enterprise software, regulated environments, or similarly complex technical products, including 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 product architectures, including tradeoffs related to data storage, sync, privacy, reliability, and user experience. • 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.

🏖️ 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) contributions • Health, dental, & vision insurance • Disability insurance • Life insurance • Employee assistance program • Paid parental leave • Paid sick days