Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Mozilla

New Products

CA$149-239k

+ Performance-based bonus. Salary varies depending on location of applicant

React
JavaScript
Python
Svelte
Senior level
Remote in Canada
Mozilla

Designs, builds, and distributes internet software

Job no longer available

Mozilla

Designs, builds, and distributes internet software

1001+ employees

B2CEnterpriseInternal toolsPrivacySaaS

Job no longer available

CA$149-239k

+ Performance-based bonus. Salary varies depending on location of applicant

React
JavaScript
Python
Svelte
Senior level
Remote in Canada

1001+ employees

B2CEnterpriseInternal toolsPrivacySaaS

Company mission

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

Role

Who you are

  • You are inventive, creative, and know just how far to plan ahead for a project that operates more like a startup than an established software product
  • You love to be invigorated by new challenges, you love working collaboratively, and you will have a team that supports you in making your very best contribution
  • 5+ years experience as an Engineer focused on Machine Learning
  • High proficiency with modern machine learning concepts like deep learning, natural language processing, multimodal models, reinforcement learning, fine-tuning, with expertise in one or more areas
  • Experience with model training pipelines and model architectures (e.g. Transformers, RNNs)
  • Strong knowledge of Python
  • Experience working with vector databases (e.g. Chroma, Pinecone)
  • Adept with cloud application architectures and services such as Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services
  • Experience developing software products in a startup or highly lean environments
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to think creatively and strategically
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a passion for learning and innovation
  • Excitement to build AI-driven products that can impact future experiences on the web
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and the unknown

Desirable

  • Experience building scalable applications with 100k+ users
  • Experience with data security fundamentals and best practices
  • Experience with building pipelines for prompt engineering strategies and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
  • Experience with ML development frameworks such as Langchain
  • Experience integrating solutions into modern web frameworks such as React / Svelte
  • Experience with other web programming languages such as Javascript
  • Familiarity with Data Science or Data Infrastructure principles

What the job involves

  • We’re looking for an ML Engineer, who will be the first technical hire and technical lead on a new product line. You will play a key role in shaping and building a new product
  • You will work with a very small cross-functional team that includes design, dev, and product management, and you will have wide latitude to operate independently with your teammates
  • Lead technical efforts to operationalize ML for a new product line that involves retrieval-augmented generation and workflow automation
  • Develop, and execute strategic, scalable approach to machine learning and generative AI that fits project stage, product roadmap, and organizational priorities and capabilities
  • Prototype cutting edge ML experiments
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including UX/UI designers, product managers, and other engineers to integrate best practices, and related technologies into our emerging products and services
  • Stay up-to-date with advancements in machine learning, data science, natural language processing, and generative AI, and integrate relevant approaches and techniques

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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Insights

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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