Senior Technical Writer / Developer Educator

Mistral AI Mistral AI · AI Frontier · Paris, France · Engineering & Infra

Senior Technical Writer / Developer Educator at Mistral AI, responsible for creating and maintaining high-quality, technically accurate developer-facing documentation for APIs, SDKs, tutorials, and deployment guides. This role involves hands-on technical validation of features and workflows, contributing to documentation strategy, and collaborating closely with Engineering and Product teams to ensure clarity and usability for developers integrating with Mistral's AI products. Experience with AI/ML documentation is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Author and maintain high-quality, technically accurate documentation for APIs, SDKs, tutorials, deployment guides, and release notes
  2. Contribute to documentation strategy and content roadmap, identifying gaps and proposing solutions
  3. Test all APIs, features, and deployment workflows before documenting
  4. Validate documentation by reproducing user workflows; catch inaccuracies, edge cases, and unclear instructions before publication
  5. Work closely with Engineering and Product to understand feature scope, technical requirements, and deployment complexities

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years in technical writing, developer documentation, or developer education
  • Proven ability to write for technical audiences—APIs, deployment guides, code examples, system architecture
  • Experience validating technical accuracy through hands-on testing and experimentation
  • Comfortable with Markdown, Git, and technical documentation tools (Docusaurus, Sphinx, or similar)
  • Experience with API testing and validation (Postman, curl, or REST clients)
  • Familiarity with code examples, including Python, JavaScript, or CLI workflows
  • Ability to understand and test complex deployment scenarios (Docker, Kubernetes, on-premises infrastructure a plus)
  • Fluent English (primary working language)

Nice to have

  • SaaS, APIs, infrastructure, or AI/ML preferred
  • French is a bonus

What the JD emphasized

  • AI/ML preferred
  • on-premises deployment scenarios
  • technical validation
  • documentation strategy
  • AI tools