Senior Front End Engineer, Generative AI

Why Mozilla?

Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser, and Pocket, a service for keeping up with the best content online. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people.

About This Team And Role

The Firefox team is a community of engineers who care deeply about delivering the fastest, friendliest, most usable browser possible. We are responsible for making the things you see in the browser work securely, quickly, and well!

Our team is geographically-distributed, and working in the open is the norm. We contribute to the code driving the Firefox browser on a number of desktop platforms - Windows, Linux, and macOS. Our focus is on implementing and fixing things in Firefox as well as helping other teams make it excellent for our users.

What You’ll Do

• Write code and tests, build prototypes, tackle problems with no clear solution, collaborate with other designers and engineers to make the web a better place.
• Learn about a wide variety of problems and solutions across a large, mature codebase.
• Help educate engineers on other teams through code reviews, giving talks, and/or writing documentation.
• Work with driven, committed team members to bring the open web to people around the world.

What You’ll Bring

• You’re comfortable reading and writing JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• You have the ability to easily switch contexts and work on several projects at the same time.
• You have an interest in and ability to work with a distributed team (which requires good asynchronous written communication skills as well as good verbal communication skills).
• You are happy to provide and receive constructive feedback; when you see something that can be improved, you act on it.
• You can build consensus on complex issues, through your empathy, internal credibility and visibility.
• You know how to approach an existing codebase and improve its architecture through small, planned interventions.
• You have a keen interest in Generative AI and bringing value of this tool to users in a privacy preserving and secure way.

Bonus Points

• Experience with large language models providers and APIs, prompt engineering and A/B testing experimentation.
• Unafraid of asking questions, and proposing new ideas if you think they will make a positive impact.
• A love of helping your colleagues grow and get better at what they do.

What You’ll Get

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
• Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
• Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
• Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
• One-time home office stipend
• Annual professional development budget
• Quarterly well-being stipend
• Considerable paid parental leave
• Employee referral bonus program