# Research Engineer, Machine Learning at Mistral AI

- Company: Mistral AI
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://mistral.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Palo Alto
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mistral.ai/b087ffe4-3f55-4072-9ff8-9f5f17b4121d
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mistral-ai-research-engineer-machine-learning/

## About the role

The team spans Platform (shared infra & clean code) and Embedded (inside research squads). Engineers can move along the research↔production spectrum as needs or interests evolve. As a Research Engineer – ML track, you’ll build and optimise the large-scale learning systems that power our open-weight models. Working hand-in-hand with Research Scientists, you’ll either join:

## What they're looking for

- • Master’s or PhD in Computer Science (or equivalent proven track record)
- • 4 + years working on large-scale ML codebases
- • Hands-on with PyTorch, JAX or TensorFlow, comfortable with distributed training (DeepSpeed / FSDP / SLURM / K8s)
- • Experience in deep learning, NLP or LLMs, bonus for CUDA or data-pipeline chops
- • Strong software-design instincts: testing, code review, CI/CD
- • Self-starter, low-ego, collaborative

Tags: Science