# Senior Engineering Manager, AI Product
**Company:** [Mozilla](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mozilla)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $215K-$240K
**Experience:** 15+ years
**Skills:** Llm Applications, Rag Workflows, Agents, Enterprise Search, Automation, On-Device Ai, Ai Evaluation, Tauri, Electron, React Native, Desktop, Web, Mobile, Local-First Architecture, Offline-Capable Architecture
**Posted:** 2026-06-26
> Lead engineering execution, people management, and operating practices for an open-source AI product moving from R&D to production. Manage senior engineers, contribute technically, and establish scalable engineering practices for enterprise-ready deployment.
## Job Description
## What you’ll do

- 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.

## What you bring

- 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.

## Bonus points for

- Experience working in open-source or maintainer-style engineering environments.
- Experience with compliance or security standards such as SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, or similar frameworks.
- Experience helping take a product from zero to one in a startup or new product initiative.
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