Founder in Residence, Open Application for Founders

Mistral AI Mistral AI · AI Frontier · Paris, France · Solutions

This role is for individuals who have founded or led companies and want to deploy Mistral AI's advanced models within enterprise clients. It involves owning client portfolios, identifying use cases, structuring deployments, and bridging the gap between model capabilities and client needs. The role has two tracks: Deployment Strategist (business focus) and Applied AI Engineer (technical focus on integration, fine-tuning, RAG/agents, and production deployment). The core function is to make Mistral's models indispensable for enterprise clients.

What you'd actually do

  1. You own a portfolio of enterprise clients. You’re their primary point of contact working as a co-builder with them
  2. You identify the highest-impact use cases, structure the deployment, and unblock friction
  3. You bridge the gap between what our models can do and what the client needs to solve. Sometimes it’s a prompting problem. Sometimes it’s a CEO problem.
  4. You feed signal back to product and research. You are the eyes and ears on the ground.
  5. Focused on integration architecture, fine‑tuning, RAG/agents, and production deployment

Skills

Required

  • Experience founding or co-founding a company
  • Experience selling a product, building a team, or raising money
  • Ability to communicate with CEOs and debug technical issues
  • Comfort with ambiguity
  • Genuine curiosity about AI
  • Integration architecture
  • Fine-tuning
  • RAG/agents
  • Production deployment

Nice to have

  • Deployment strategy
  • Business case development
  • C-level adoption
  • Account expansion
  • Executive workshops
  • Adoption roadmaps
  • ROI proposals
  • Open-source contributions

What the JD emphasized

  • built something from nothing
  • founded, co-founded, or led a company
  • built something real, with real users, real problems, and real constraints
  • You’ve founded or co-founded a company, no matter the size or sector or if it’s still running
  • You’ve sold a product to customers, built a team, or raised money. You know what “skin in the game” means.

Other signals

  • enterprise clients
  • deploying advanced AI models
  • integration architecture
  • fine-tuning
  • RAG/agents
  • production deployment