Staff Design Engineer, AI Product

Mozilla
Canada, United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Mentoring","Usability judgment","Responsible AI judgment"]

Help shape Thunderbolt’s AI-powered product experience as it moves from early concepts to enterprise use. You’ll build and refine functional prototypes and production-ready UI by working directly in the codebase, translating workflows and partner/enterprise needs into reusable interaction patterns. Partner with product, design, engineering, and enterprise teams to improve usability, accessibility, trust, security, and maintainability for AI chat, search, research, and workflow automation.

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Mozilla
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Staff Design Engineer, AI Product

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Job Summary

Help shape Thunderbolt’s AI-powered product experience as it moves from early concepts to enterprise use. You’ll build and refine functional prototypes and production-ready UI by working directly in the codebase, translating workflows and partner/enterprise needs into reusable interaction patterns. Partner with product, design, engineering, and enterprise teams to improve usability, accessibility, trust, security, and maintainability for AI chat, search, research, and workflow automation.
Location: Canada, United States
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, and partner/enterprise feedback 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 improve usability, accessibility, consistency, and polish.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Remote WorkAnnual BonusLearning Budget401kHealth Insurance

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of relevant experience in design engineering, front-end engineering, UX engineering, or product design with strong technical implementation and leadership impact.
  • •Strong front-end engineering skills with modern JavaScript or TypeScript and component-based frameworks, building prototypes or production features in an application codebase.
  • •Strong product and interaction design judgment (usability, accessibility, information architecture, workflow design, and product polish).
  • •Experience designing, prototyping, or building AI-enabled product experiences where user trust, context, output quality, and human oversight are central.
  • •Comfort providing technical or product leadership through mentoring, cross-functional coordination, reusable patterns, project ownership, or influence beyond individual deliverables.
Experience:10+ yearsOpen sourceAI-enabled productsEnterprise softwareDeveloper toolsProductivity tools
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationMentoringUsability judgmentResponsible AI judgment
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaScriptTypeScriptComponent-based frameworksCoursera

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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