Applied Scientist / Domain Expert, Ai4engineering - Emea

Mistral AI Mistral AI · AI Frontier · Munich, Germany · Solutions

Applied Scientist role at Mistral AI focusing on AI for Engineering in EMEA. The role involves designing and running large-scale simulation campaigns, training AI models on physics data, and building tools for dataset creation and model evaluation. Requires a PhD in physics or engineering with 5+ years of industry experience in Automotive, Aerospace, or Semiconductors, and an interest in machine learning.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and run large-scale simulation campaigns using domain-specific solvers (e.g. OpenFOAM, ANSYS, COMSOL, Abaqus)
  2. Run training of AI models on physics data, with rigorous evaluation of coverage, accuracy, and quality against industry validation standards
  3. Build tools and frameworks for automated dataset creation, simulation pipeline management, and model evaluation
  4. Collaborate closely with the science/research team on training runs and diagnose failure modes arising from data gaps or architecture limitations
  5. Manage research projects and client communications with engineering teams

Skills

Required

  • Fluent English
  • PhD in physics or engineering
  • 5+ years of industry experience in Automotive, Aerospace or Semiconductors
  • Interest in machine learning
  • Experience with domain-specific solvers (e.g. OpenFOAM, ANSYS, COMSOL, Abaqus)

Nice to have

  • Deep passion for machine learning
  • Applied ML methods to simulation or surrogate modelling
  • Experience automating large-scale simulation campaigns on HPC clusters
  • Contributed to a large open-source or industry codebase
  • Publications in engineering or ML venues (NeurIPS, ICLR, etc.)
  • Improving existing code by fixing typing issues, adding tests and improving CI pipelines

What the JD emphasized

  • PhD in physics or engineering and 5 years+ of industry experience in a relevant domain
  • You work in a key engineering industry: Automotive, Aerospace or Semiconductors

Other signals

  • AI for Engineering
  • Physics-informed ML
  • Simulation data