Senior/Staff Applied AI, Machine Learning Engineer

At Mistral AI, we believe in the power of AI to simplify tasks, save time, and enhance learning and creativity.

We are seeking a Senior/Staff Applied AI, Machine Learning Engineer to facilitate the adoption of our products among customers and collaborate with them to address complex technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• 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 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'll provide technical guidance on our products and explain Mistral technologies to various stakeholders.
• You'll collaborate with our product and science team to improve continuously our product and model capabilities based on customers' feedback.

Requirements

• You are fluent in English.
• You hold a PhD/master in AI/data science or you're self-made.
• You have 7-10+ years as a technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer) on AI-based products.
• You have experience in Fine Tuning LLMs, tackling advanced RAG or agentic use cases.
• You have a deep understanding of concepts and algorithms underlying machine learning and LLMs.
• You have a deep understanding of Cloud Infrastructure and how to deploy AI-based products.
• You have deployed or built products with large-scale users.
• You hold strong communication skills with an ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms with technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to Have

• Contributed to open-source projects, particularly in the space of LLM.
• Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Staff Engineer Machine Learning Engineer, Staff Data Scientist.