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Research Software Engineer

On-site in London·Full-time·Added 3 months ago

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Mistral AI

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Overview

Job details

  • Full-time

    Per the ad.

Skills

Requirements

What we're looking for

• 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 have

• Exposure to ML workloads or data-processing pipelines.

• Experience with GPU clusters or CUDA.

• Open-source contributions or widely used internal tools.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance. Benefits vary by country and may include healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, meal and transportation allowances, and other location-specific perks.

For the most up-to-date details on benefits available in your location, please refer to our Benefits page.

The role

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 Research Software Engineering team to build and maintain shared dev-tools, evaluation & data pipelines, training framework, cluster tooling and CI/CD.

Location: Paris / Warsaw / Zurich / London (hybrid) or remote EU/UK with one hub visit per month.

What you'll 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 services (Kubernetes / SLURM, thousands-of-GPU jobs).

• Prototype utilities (CLI, dashboards) and carry them through to stable, shared libraries.

How you'll work

This role is primarily based at one of our European offices (Paris, Warsaw, Zurich and London). We will prioritize candidates who either reside there or are open to relocating. We strongly believe in the value of in-person collaboration to foster strong relationships and seamless communication within our team. In certain specific situations, we will also consider remote candidates based in one of the countries listed in this job posting - currently France & UK. In that case, we ask all new hires to visit our local office:

• for the first week of their onboarding (accommodation and travelling covered)

• then at least 3 days per month

Hiring process

3 steps3 interviews
  1. Intro conversation

    With a recruiter or hiring manager

    Understand your background, interests and expectations.

  2. Role-specific interviews

    Interviews with the hiring manager and team plus a case exercise for GTM and corporate roles, or a series of technical exercises for science, product and engineering roles.

  3. Values conversation

    A final discussion on alignment with Mistral's values and ways of working.

  4. Reference checks

  • Reference checks are always conducted before an offer is extended.

About Mistral AI

Industry
AI
Founded
2023
Employees
100–500
Headquarters
Paris, France
Website
mistral.ai

In their own words

About the company & team

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.

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.

Additional information

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