Research Platform Engineer

Mistral AI Mistral AI · AI Frontier · Paris, France · Research

Mistral AI is seeking a Research Platform Engineer to build and optimize a cloud-agnostic platform for their research department. This role focuses on improving the stability, scalability, and velocity of research operations by creating tools and environments for researchers, optimizing build processes, and managing data pipelines. The engineer will work closely with researchers to understand their needs and enable them to leverage high-performance clusters more effectively.

What you'd actually do

  1. Designing and implementing complex systems (e.g. scale our research CI with a strong focus toward reliability, reproducibility and speed)
  2. Building flexible yet solid and accessible development environment for researchers, so they can focus on core mission.
  3. Designing, implementing and advocating for solutions addressing large amounts of data and maintainable data pipelines.
  4. Optimizing a variety of builds: container images, large libraries compilation times, python environments...
  5. Building strong relationships with researchers, understanding their workflow and enabling them to achieve more by leveraging your expertise.

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • Go
  • CI/CD
  • containerization
  • orchestration
  • infra-as-code
  • monitoring
  • logging
  • alerting
  • observability
  • site reliability engineering
  • root cause analysis
  • in-production troubleshooting
  • on-call rotations
  • technical product mindset
  • problem-solving
  • communication skills

Nice to have

  • Bazel
  • Python ecosystem
  • GPU based workloads
  • full remote environments

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of successful experience in a similar DX / DevOps / SRE role
  • Proficiency in software development (Python, Go...)
  • Exposure to site reliability engineering
  • Exposure to infrastructure management
  • Technical product mindset