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Senior Engineering Manager, AI Product – Thunderbolt
Location
United States
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$215K - $240K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Engineering Manager, AI Product – Thunderbolt
Mozilla
• 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.
Job 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
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