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Research Engineer, ML Platform

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 ML platform that powers large-scale training, evaluation, and batch inference at Mistral AI. You will develop the infrastructure that enables researchers and engineers to run distributed GPU workloads reliably across clusters, hardware types, and regions.

What they're looking for

  • Have 4+ years of experience in ML infrastructure, distributed systems, Kubernetes platform engineering, or a related field
  • Are proficient in Python or Go and comfortable working with production-grade distributed systems
  • Have strong Kubernetes knowledge, including controllers, operators, CRDs, scheduling, networking, storage, and resource management
  • Understand technologies such as Kueue, Karpenter, Volcano, and Kyverno, and the problems they address in workload scheduling, provisioning, and policy enforcement
  • Understand distributed ML workloads, including training, fine-tuning, evaluation, checkpointing, and batch inference
  • Are familiar with GPU infrastructure and technologies such as PyTorch, CUDA, NCCL, and high-performance networking
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 ML platform that powers large-scale training, evaluation, and batch inference at Mistral AI. You will develop the infrastructure that enables researchers and engineers to run distributed GPU workloads reliably across clusters, hardware types, and regions.

You will work across the full ML lifecycle, from workload scheduling and capacity management to platform APIs, observability, and production operations. You will take ownership of critical systems and help turn complex infrastructure...

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