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Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Mistral AI · Palo Alto · Remote

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About Mistral AI

The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models. Backed by General Catalyst, Index and Lightspeed.

About the role

This role focuses on building and operating the next generation of data infrastructure at Mistral AI. You will be a core contributor to our evolution, helping us design and scale massive compute fleets and storage systems designed for high performance and scalability.

What they're looking for

  • • Have 4+ years of experience in Data Infrastructure, MLOps, or Infrastructure Engineering
  • • Have experience or a strong interest in supporting foundational compute and storage platforms
  • • Are proficient in Python and enjoy solving the "brittle data lake" problem with modern, columnar storage standards
  • • Are well-versed in Kubernetes-native tooling and excited to debug large-scale distributed systems across multi-cluster environments
  • • Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, and secure systems from the ground up
  • • Are comfortable with ambiguity and the challenges of building high-scale infrastructure in a rapid-growth AI environment
More about this role

Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector, co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms.

We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.

This role focuses on building and operating the next generation of data infrastructure at Mistral AI. You will be a core contributor to our evolution, helping us design and scale massive compute fleets and storage systems designed for high performance and scalability.

You will help us move toward a future of decoupled control and data planes, scaling big data compute and storage platforms while ensuring secure and governed data access for MLOps and research. You will take full lifecycle ownership: from architecting the migration...

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