Staff Software Engineer, Browser (New Products)

Mozilla; Canada; Remote; CAD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Medical coverage

Retirement plan

Well-being stipend

Home office stipend

Parental leave

Referral program

Life/AD&D & disability benefits

Job summary

Mozilla is seeking a remote Canada-based engineer to prototype engine capabilities for programmatic interaction with web content. You will profile overheads, pursue performance improvements, and use AI tools to accelerate coding while validating results through debugging and tests.

You should be curious about AI agents, capable of working with agent harnesses and coding tools, and have experience with profiling, traces, regression tests, or conformance tests.

Qualifications

• Ability to investigate unfamiliar code, form precise hypotheses and build useful prototypes.
• Experience profiling, tracing, regression tests, or conformance tests with measurable claims.
• Curiosity about AI agents and comfort working with agent harnesses and coding tools.

Responsibilities

• Prototype engine capabilities for reliable programmatic interaction with web content.
• Profile overhead of new capabilities and justify improvements with measurements.
• Use AI tools to accelerate coding and verify output via debugging and tests.

Skills

Investigate unfamiliar code

Hypothesis-driven prototyping

Profiling and tracing

Regression tests & conformance tests

Analytical reasoning with measurements

AI agents curiosity

Tools

Agent harnesses

Coding tools

Job description

Remote Canada

Why Mozilla?

The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non‑profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute open‑source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.

About this team and role

What you'll do:

Prototype engine capabilities that support reliable programmatic interaction with web content. Investigate how document structure, layout, navigation, and event handling affect correctness and performance.

Profile the overhead introduced by new capabilities and pursue improvements where measurements justify them. Use AI tools to accelerate coding and analysis, and verify their output through debugging, tests, and measurement.

What you'll bring:

• A demonstrated ability to investigate unfamiliar code, form a precise hypothesis, construct a useful prototype, and interpret the results. You can separate the effects of your implementation from variability in websites, workloads, or model behavior.
• Experience with profiling, tracing, regression tests, or conformance tests, and a habit of grounding performance claims in reproducible evidence. You can explain both the benefit of an optimization and the circumstances in which it fails.
• Curiosity about AI agents and a willingness to work directly with agent harnesses and coding tools. You can connect a low‑level implementation choice to the information an agent receives and the work it must do next.

Nice to have:

• Experience maintaining an open‑source project
• Technical leadership in a small team building a new product

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
• Quarterly well‑being stipend
• Considerable paid parental leave
• Employee referral bonus program
• Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)

About Mozilla

Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled. When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of Web users everywhere. And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day. Join us to work on the Web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online.

Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

Mozilla understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission. We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity‑seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientation s, gender identities, and expressions.

We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, as appropriate. Please contact us at [e-mail] to request accommodation.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race (including hairstyle and texture), religion (including religious grooming and dress practices), gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws. Mozilla will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics or any other unlawful behavior, conduct, or purpose.

Hiring Ranges:

$145,000 - $170,000 CAD

$130,000 - $155,000 CAD

Canada Demographic Questions

At Mozilla we value diversity, prioritize equity and inclusion, and proactively work to design hiring processes that mitigate bias. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race (including hairstyle and texture), religion (including religious grooming and dress practices), gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws. Mozilla will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics or any other unlawful behavior, conduct, or purpose.

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