Staff Design Engineer, AI Product

Mozilla
Canada
Workplace: RemoteFull timeCAD 155,000 - 175,000 annuallyFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Leadership","Product judgment","Mentoring"]

Help shape Thunderbolt’s AI product experience as it moves from early concepts into enterprise-ready workflows. Build functional prototypes directly in the codebase, translate ambiguous ideas and partner feedback into usable interaction patterns, and improve usability, accessibility, and UX polish. Collaborate with product, design, engineering, and enterprise teams to validate direction while using AI-assisted tools responsibly, with strong judgment around quality, security, trust, and maintainability.

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Mozilla
Mozilla
4 days ago

Staff Design Engineer, AI Product

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Job Summary

Help shape Thunderbolt’s AI product experience as it moves from early concepts into enterprise-ready workflows. Build functional prototypes directly in the codebase, translate ambiguous ideas and partner feedback into usable interaction patterns, and improve usability, accessibility, and UX polish. Collaborate with product, design, engineering, and enterprise teams to validate direction while using AI-assisted tools responsibly, with strong judgment around quality, security, trust, and maintainability.
Location: Canada
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •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.
  • •Contribute production-quality front-end code where appropriate and create reusable components, interface patterns, or design-system elements.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 155,000 - 175,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRrspHome OfficeLearning BudgetPaid LeavePaid ParentalPaid SickDisability InsuranceLife InsuranceAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of relevant experience in design engineering, front-end engineering, UX engineering, product design, or a closely related role, with leadership and impact beyond individual deliverables.
  • •Strong front-end engineering skills, including experience with modern JavaScript or TypeScript and component-based frameworks, building prototypes or production features in an application codebase.
  • •Strong product and interaction design judgment across usability, accessibility, information architecture, workflow design, and product polish.
  • •Experience designing, prototyping, or building AI-enabled product experiences (e.g., chat, search, research, agents, automation, knowledge interfaces) with central user trust, context, output quality, and human oversight.
  • •Practical awareness of AI, privacy, security, and regulatory considerations, including frameworks such as the EU AI Act, Cyber Resilience Act, or HIPAA (or comparable responsible AI, privacy, and security requirements).
Experience:10+ yearsOpen sourceAI-enabled productsEnterprise softwareDeveloper toolsProduct prototyping
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationLeadershipProduct judgmentMentoring
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaScriptTypeScript

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

Mozilla
Mozilla is a mission-driven organization that builds open-source internet products (notably the Firefox browser) and advocates for an open, private, and secure web through software, research, and community programs.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Nonprofit & NGO
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 1998
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