Mistral AI · Paris/London · Hybrid

Software Engineer, Research Team - Paris/London

6/17/2025

Description


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.


• 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.

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.

Qualifications


• 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 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)

Application

View listing at origin and apply!