Software Engineer, Research Team
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https://mistral.ai/careers. Mistral AI participates in the E-Verify program Role Summary - Software Engineering track As a Research Engineer on the software side, you will design and harden the codebase, tools and distributed services that let our scientists train and ship frontier-scale models. You do not need prior ML experience; what matters is writing clean, reliable code that scales. You will join our Platform REs team to build and maintain shared dev-tools, evaluation & data pipelines, training framework, cluster tooling and CI/CD. Location: Paris / London (hybrid) or remote EU/UK with one hub day per month. What will you do * Accelerate researchers by owning the complex parts of large-scale pipelines and delivering robust internal tooling. * Interface research with product: expose clean APIs, automate model pushes, surface live metrics. * Write efficient, well-tested Python and systems code; enforce code review, CI, and observability. * Design and optimise distributed
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services (Kubernetes / SLURM, thousands-of-GPU jobs). * Prototype utilities (CLI, dashboards) and carry them through to stable, shared libraries. About the Research Engineering team Based in Paris and London, our REs move fluidly along the research * production spectrum. Engineers can rotate between Platform and Embedded tracks as their interests evolve. About you * Master's in Computer Science (or equivalent experience). * 4 + years building and operating large-scale or distributed systems. * Strong software-design instincts: modular code, tests, CI/CD, observability. * Fluency in Python plus one systems language (C++, Rust, Go or Java). * Hands-on with container orchestration and schedulers (Kubernetes / K8s, SLURM, or similar). * Comfortable profiling performance, optimising I/O, and automating workflows. * Self-starter, low-ego, collaborative, high-energy. Nice-to-haves * Exposure to ML workloads or data-processing pipelines. * Experience with GPU
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clusters or CUDA. * Open-source contributions or widely used internal tools. Benefits France Competitive cash salary and equity Food: Daily lunch vouchers Sport: Monthly contribution to a Gympass subscription Transportation: Monthly contribution to a mobility pass ️ Health: Full health insurance for you and your family Parental: Generous parental leave policy Visa sponsorship UK Competitive cash salary and equity Insurance Transportation: Reimburse office parking charges, or £90 per month for public transport Sport: £90 per month reimbursement for gym membership Meal voucher: £200 monthly allowance for meals Pension plan: SmartPension (percentages are 5% Employee & 3% Employer)