About Mistral
We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.
About The Job
Mistral AI is seeking a Applied AI Engineer to facilitate the adoption of its products among customers and collaborate with them to address complex technical challenges.
The Applied AI team is Mistral's customer-facing technical organization. We work directly with enterprise clients from pre-sales through implementation to deploy cutting-edge AI solutions that deliver measurable business impact.
Our team combines deep ML expertise with strong customer engagement skills, operating like startup CTOs who own end-to-end project execution. By joining the team you'll will bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI research and real-world enterprise applications, ensuring our solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with both customer needs and Mistral's technological vision.
What you will do
You’ll individually help deploy into production use cases with a considerable business impact across various industries.
You’ll work on state-of-the-art GenAI applications from consumer products to industrial use cases, driving with our customers a crucial technological transformation.
You’ll work in collaboration with our researchers, other AI engineers, product engineers on our most complex customer projects involving complex fine-tuning, state-of-the-art LLM applications, and contributing to our open-source codebases our open source codebases for tasks such as inference and fine-tuning.
You’ll be involved in pre-sales calls to understand potential clients' needs, challenges, and aspirations. You will provide technical guidance on our products and explain Mistral technologies to various stakeholders.
Your collaboration with our product and science team to improve continuously our product and model capabilities based on customers’ feedback
How We Work in Applied AI
We care about people and outputs.
What matters is what you ship, not the time you spend on it
Bureaucracy is where urgency goes to vanish. You talk to whoever you need to talk to. The best idea wins, whether it comes from a principal engineer or someone in their first week.
Always ask why. The best solutions come from deep understanding, not from copying what worked before
We say what we mean. Feedback is direct, timely, and given because we care.
No politics. Low ego, high standards.
We embrace an unstructured environment and find joy in it.
About you
You are fluent in English
You have 2+ years as a technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer) on AI-based products
You have proven experience in AI or machine learning product implementation with APIs, back-end and front-end interfaces.
You have experience in Fine Tuning LLMs, tackling advanced RAG or agentic use cases
You have deep understanding of concepts and algorithms underlying machine learning and LLMs
You have strong technical coding skills in Python
You hold strong communication skills with an ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms with technical and non-technical audiences
Ideally you have:
Contributed to open-source projects in particular in the space of LLMs
Experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect or Technical Product Manager
You have experience with deep learning with Pytorch
Why join us?
You’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of AI adoption in enterprises, work with a world-class team, and contribute to open-source projects that impact millions. If you’re excited about leading technical innovation and solving real-world challenges with AI, we’d love to hear from you!
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What do we offer?
We support our employees’ well-being, growth, and work-life balance, with a range of global benefits designed to meet the diverse needs of our team members worldwide.
Health & Family
- Healthcare Coverage 100% employer-sponsored premium plans for medical, dental, and vision care for you and your dependents.
- Parental Leave 20 weeks of paid leave for all primary parents.
- Childcare Support Reserved daycare seats or financial assistance for working parents.
Financial & Career Planning
- Retirement Plans Competitive employer-matched contributions in applicable markets (e.g., 6% 401k match in the US, 5% pension contribution in the UK) to secure your financial future.
- Relocation Support Financial assistance for moving expenses, visa sponsorship, and settling-in services for you and your family.
Daily Life & Wellness
- Meal Allowances Monthly stipends, vouchers, or catered in-office meals, depending on your office location.
- Transportation Support Monthly allowances for public transport, parking, or sustainable mobility
- Fitness & Wellness Subsidies or memberships for gyms, wellness programs, or fitness activities
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