# Staff Design Engineer, AI Product

**Company:** [Mozilla](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mozilla)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $155k – $175k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** JavaScript, TypeScript, Front-End Engineering, Component Frameworks, Ai-Assisted Development, Interaction Design, Accessibility, Information Architecture, Design Systems, User Research, Usability Testing, Open Source
**Posted:** 2026-08-27

> Staff Designer shaping AI-powered enterprise product experiences through code-based prototyping, interaction design, and production front-end implementation. Requires 10+ years of relevant experience, strong JavaScript or TypeScript skills, and demonstrated leadership in design-to-code work.

## Job Description

## 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 while maintaining quality, usability, security, accessibility, and maintainability.
- Partner with product, design, engineering, and enterprise-facing teams to explore and refine product direction.
- Contribute production-quality front-end code where appropriate.
- Determine whether prototypes should be discarded, refined, generalized, or productionized.
- Improve usability, accessibility, consistency, and polish.
- Develop reusable components, interface patterns, and design-system elements.
- Consider enterprise requirements including data sensitivity, user control, administrative visibility, auditability, and security.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant experience in design engineering, front-end engineering, UX engineering, or product design with strong technical implementation experience.
- Strong front-end engineering skills with modern JavaScript or TypeScript, component-based frameworks, and direct application-codebase development.
- Strong product and interaction design judgment, including usability, accessibility, information architecture, workflow design, and product polish.
- Experience designing, prototyping, or building AI-enabled product experiences.
- Experience translating ambiguous concepts into workflows, prototypes, and shipped experiences.
- Experience providing technical or product leadership through mentoring, cross-functional coordination, reusable patterns, project ownership, or broader influence.
- Awareness of AI, privacy, security, and regulatory considerations, including transparency, permissions, data handling, and trust.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Portfolio, case studies, shipped work, or examples demonstrating design-to-code execution or interactive prototypes.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with enterprise software, developer tools, productivity tools, collaboration tools, self-hosted software, or technical workflows.
- Experience with design systems, component libraries, reusable front-end architecture, or shared interaction patterns.
- Familiarity with user research, usability testing, instrumentation, product discovery, or rapid experimentation.
- Experience working in open-source or highly collaborative engineering environments.

## Compensation and benefits
- Canada: $155,000–$175,000 CAD.
- US salary range is referenced but not provided in the posting excerpt.

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