Applied Science - Research Engineer (Robotics)

Mistral AI is seeking Applied Scientists and Research Engineers focused on robotics. You will design, train, and deploy SOTA robotics models (VLM, VLA models for navigation and manipulation) and apply them to diverse use cases. You'll work cross-functionally with internal and external science, engineering, and product teams to deliver high-impact AI solutions.

What you will do

• Run pre-training, post-training and deploy state of the art models on large clusters.

• Generate and curate datasets (image-text, video-text), and build evaluators/benchmarks for perception, navigation and manipulation tasks.

• Develop the necessary tools and frameworks to facilitate data generation, model training, evaluation and deployment.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to tackle complex use cases.

• Manage research projects and communications with client research teams.

• Fluent in English with excellent communication skills.

• Expert with PyTorch or JAX.

• Experience with Vision Language Models (VLM), Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, perception, navigation and manipulation, simulation tools (e.g. Isaac SIM).

• Clean, readable, high-performance Python code.

• Doesn't need roadmaps. Ships.

• Low-ego, collaborative and eager to learn.

• Track record of success through personal projects, professional projects or academia.

Nice to have

• PhD / Master in a relevant field (Robotics, Machine Learning).

• Research experience in robotics navigation, perception, manipulation.

• Contributions to a large open-source or industry codebase.

• Publications in top academic journals or conferences.

• Enjoys improving existing code: typing, tests, CI pipelines.