AI Scientist - Zurich

Mistral AI Mistral AI · AI Frontier · Zurich, Switzerland · Research

Research Scientist at Mistral AI focused on pushing the frontier of LLMs, working across use cases and modalities, building training/evaluation infrastructure, and shipping AI systems. Requires strong software engineering and AI framework experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Research and develop novel methods to push the frontier of large language models
  2. Work across use cases (e.g reasoning, code, agents) and modalities (e.g text, image and speech)
  3. Build tooling and infrastructure to allow training, evaluation and analysis of AI models at scale
  4. Work cross-functionally with other scientists, engineers and product teams to ship AI systems which have a real-world impact

Skills

Required

  • Python or other programming language (e.g. Rust, Go, Java)
  • AI frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, JAX)
  • distributed systems (e.g. Ray, Kubernetes)
  • design complex software and make it usable in production

Nice to have

  • training large transformer models in a distributed fashion
  • fine-tuning
  • evaluation
  • deployment
  • strong publication record

What the JD emphasized

  • push the frontier of large language models
  • training, evaluation and analysis of AI models at scale
  • ship AI systems which have a real-world impact
  • high engineering competence
  • training large transformer models in a distributed fashion
  • full MLOps stack
  • strong publication record

Other signals

  • push the frontier of large language models
  • work across use cases and modalities
  • build tooling and infrastructure for training, evaluation, and analysis
  • ship AI systems with real-world impact