Senior Engineering Manager, AI Product – Thunderbolt

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About the role

  • Senior Engineering Manager leading technical execution and people management for Thunderbolt, an AI product initiative at Mozilla. Driving engineering excellence and product maturity with a remote team.

Responsibilities

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

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$190,000 - CA$220,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

ElectronReactReact Native

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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