Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Mozilla
GenAI
$184-288k
Salary varies by location; + Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees
Internet software for people, not profit
Open for applications
Internet software for people, not profit
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$184-288k
Salary varies by location; + Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees
1001+ employees
Company mission
To ensure the internet remains open and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years experience as an engineer in machine learning with experience building and shipping machine learning models in production environments for user-facing applications
- Experience with shipping LLMs and multimodal models in user-centric products
- Deep understanding of fundamental machine learning concepts, including deep learning, natural language processing, large language models, and reinforcement learning, with proven expertise in one or more of these areas
- Identify difficult problems that are important for the organization, collaborate across teams and the organization to find the best strategy to resolve
- Consistent track record of technical leadership across multiple teams, shipping AI products showing a high degree of collaboration, flexibility, and respect for different perspectives
- Experience with tooling in the AI ecosystem, that are open source and services in the cloud(such as GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Experience with design of experiments, survey design, and large-scale AB testing
- Experience with responsible AI, transparent algorithms, and putting users’ needs first
- You’re pragmatic about how to move things forward in specific timeframes including trade-offs and safeguards when implementing new functionality
- Lead and thrive effectively on a distributed team
Desirable
- Experience with working on on-device machine learning models
- You have previously successfully contributed to an open source project
- Experience with the browser architecture or ecosystem
What the job involves
- 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
- We are looking for a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to help us develop and grow new machine learning driven products and tools
- You will play a key role in enabling safe and healthy machine learning and AI driven experiences in Firefox
- Senior Staff Engineers are industry experts in their domain
- They help define our product strategy and goals affecting multiple teams and turn our strategy into coordinated action for those teams
- They mentor others through transfer of responsibilities to more junior engineers, so they can tackle new ones, while collaborating with management on building team consensus and providing direction
- Take on large open-ended problems and drive them to completion, collaborating with other designers and engineers to make the web a better place
- Identify strategic opportunities where Large Language models improve the experience in Firefox
- Lead the design, development, and integration of innovative AI and machine learning models in Firefox, collaborating cross functionally with product management, full stack engineering and design
- Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in AI, and inform feature development, and ensure our methodologies remain innovative and relevant
- Lead by example to upskill the team on AI and generate thought leadership
Our take
Mozilla develops a range of free and open-source software, with its most familiar product being Firefox. Operated with a mission-driven, not0for-profit ethos, Mozilla champions online privacy, open standards and user-choice.
Beyond Firefox, Mozilla has focused on privacy forward offerings such as Mozilla VPN, which allows users to browse securely without being tracked. The company has also streamlined its product portfolio to concentrate on initiatives that align closely with its core mission, ensuring resources are dedicated to improving user experiences while fostering safer, more open digital environments.
Alongside this, its impact extends into the developer and tech community, having played a pivotal role in the creation of Rust, a systems programming language celebrated for its speed and efficiency. With a loyal user base, ongoing innovation, and a clear commitment to privacy and open-source principles, Mozilla remains an influential player in the technology landscape.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2018
$1.2m
GRANT
Jan 2005
$0.3m
ANGEL
Total funding: $3.5m
Company benefits
- Health and wellness: Mozilla covers medical, dental and vision plan premiums at 100% for U.S. and Canadian employees. Our offerings give you the options you need to manage your health — and your family’s — the way you want.
- Mental health: Mental health is as important as our physical health. That’s why Mozilla’s health benefits include therapy and coaching sessions to make sure our people have access to the care they need.
- Time away: With all of life’s demands, time away from work to disconnect and recharge is essential. In addition to country-specific holidays (12 in the U.S. and Canada), vacation and sick time start accruing right away (specifics vary by country). Everyone also takes a pause together on quarterly all-company wellness days, plus you get to celebrate the most personal holiday of all: your birthday.
- Parental leave: While Mozilla’s parental leave policies vary globally, our U.S. and Canadian-based employees can look forward to 26 weeks of paid leave for childbearing parents and 12 weeks of paid leave for non-childbearing parents.
- Financial: Mozilla is a private company, so our compensation isn’t tied to stock options or equity plans. Instead, we offer generous, performance-based bonus plans to all regular employees to underscore that we share in our success as one team. As for retirement savings for US and Canadian employees, Mozilla contributes a percentage of your eligible base salary each year to the 401(k) Plan/RRSP (regardless of whether you contribute or not), with 100% vesting.
- Learning and development: We’re big believers in learning by doing, and we also want to invest in your education and development beyond your role. Every employee is eligible for an annual professional development budget. Mozillians can put it toward technical or management training, certifications, conferences and more.
- Help when you need it: Life is full of surprises; that’s why it’s important to be prepared. Mozilla provides Life/AD&D and Short and Long Term Disability insurance (offerings may vary by locale) to ensure that you and your family will have a safety net in place should you ever need it.
- Plus a bit more: A few other benefits include a quarterly wellbeing stipend (to use on those things just for you), an employee referral bonus, internet reimbursement if you’re remote, and a budget for office essentials to make working remotely ergonomically comfortable.
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Laura Chambers
(CEO)Alongside serving as the CEO at Mozilla, Laura is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. Previously, she was the CEO and PResident at Willow Innovation, Director at Patelco Credit Union, and General Manager of Core Hosts & Community at Airbnb.
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