Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Mozilla

Gen AI

£110-160k

+ Generous performance-based bonus

Senior and Expert level
Remote in UK
Mozilla

Designs, builds, and distributes internet software

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Mozilla

Designs, builds, and distributes internet software

1001+ employees

B2CEnterpriseInternal toolsPrivacySaaS

Be an early applicant

£110-160k

+ Generous performance-based bonus

Senior and Expert level
Remote in UK

1001+ employees

B2CEnterpriseInternal toolsPrivacySaaS

Company mission

To make sure that the internet remains accessible, open, and transparent to everyone.

Role

Who you are

  • 6+ years experience as a Machine Learning engineer building tooling and services for machine learning applications in production
  • Experience with designing and building machine learning tooling and infrastructure for training, deploying, inference and validation of models
  • Experience with distributed systems and platforms for AI integrations across a breadth of applications such as LLM APIs, Cloud based and open source tooling
  • Leading architecture designs to execution independently and track record of improving the team’s overall AI development velocity
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience working collaboratively with product managers, project managers, and/or other non-engineering teams
  • Effective documentation and communication skills on a distributed team
  • Commitment to our values

Desirable

  • Knowledge of and experience with using LLM solutions across different cloud providers
  • You have previously successfully contributed to an open source project
  • Track record of not only building one, but multiple projects deployed with an active user base
  • Experience with responsible AI, transparent algorithms, and putting users’ needs first
  • Excellent communication skills, both in written and presentation form. You have the ability to quickly distill sophisticated topics into concepts that are tailored for your target audience
  • You are a lifelong learner, and continue to refine and improve your skills when you see an opportunity to do so
  • Experience with the browser extensions architecture or ecosystem
  • Experience working in open source environments

What the job involves

  • At Mozilla this role can vary but typically a Staff Engineer is a domain expert who leads others within a single team to tackle multi-month projects
  • Tasks that may be initially ambiguous or require significant planning and require them to influence or direct the work of several engineers
  • They sequence deliverables and manage risks in their team's projects, provide feedback on our strategy and goals affecting the team, and turn our strategy into action for their team members
  • Staff Engineers mentor others by stewarding some responsibilities to more junior and senior engineers so they can take on new ones
  • They collaborate with management on building team consensus and providing direction
  • Staff Engineers identify gaps and opportunities for improvement to enable a culture of inclusion and allyship, at all levels of the organization
  • Lead the design, development, and integration of Generative AI solutions in Firefox, collaborating cross functionally with product management, full stack engineering and design
  • Build infrastructure for training and inference of LLMs and small language and vision models for use cases on the web and mobile Firefox product experiences
  • Implement robust validation and testing procedures to ensure the developed models' generalizability and reliability
  • Continuously monitor and optimize deployed models for performance and efficiency

Our take

Mozilla creates and manages a range of free-to-use software products. Their most well-known product is Firefox, the fourth most popular internet browser in the world. Mozilla is a not-for-profit with a focus on promoting online privacy. The company has a published manifesto outlining its commitment to keeping a balance between commercial profit and public benefit.

The companies other products include Bugzilla, a bug management platform, and Pocket, an award-winning digital content filing service. In direct odds with Google, Mozilla has recently launched a new product Mozilla VPN. The VPN or virtual private network enables users to browse the internet without being tracked. Companies such as Google rely on tracking user behavior online to target them with advertising.

Mozilla was also instrumental in creating the programming language Rust, which is admired for its brevity. Rust uses roughly half the amount of code as C++ to produce the same results.

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Led by a woman

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

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, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance + Accidental Death & Dismemberment
  • Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Retirement Plan contributions
  • 20 Paid Time Off days per year (prorated) + your birthday
  • Company Holidays + Shutdown
  • Wellness budget
  • Reimbursement for professional development (up to $3,000/year)
  • Industry-leading paid parental leave (up to 26 weeks of fully paid leave for childbearing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-childbearing parents)
  • Flexible work environment (nearly half of Mozillians work remotely)
  • A work setup including the latest hardware and software of your choice

Company values

  • We welcome differences
  • We are relationship-minded
  • We practice responsible participation
  • We have grit

Company HQ

Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Mitchell Baker

(CEO & Chairwoman)

Mitchell worked as a lawyer and at Netscape Communications before co-founding Mozilla in 2003. They have served as Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation since then, and CEO as of April 2020.

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