Software Engineer, Knowledge and Search

About Mistral

At Mistral AI, we believe in the power of AI to simplify tasks, save time, and enhance learning and creativity. Our technology is designed to integrate seamlessly into daily working life.

We democratize AI through high-performance, optimized, open-source and cutting-edge models, products and solutions. Our comprehensive AI platform is designed to meet enterprise needs, whether on-premises or in cloud environments. Our offerings include le Chat, the AI assistant for life and work.

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 France, USA, UK, Germany and Singapore. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.

Join us to be part of a pioneering company shaping the future of AI. Together, we can make a meaningful impact. See more about our culture on https://mistral.ai/careers.

Role Summary

We are seeking a talented and experienced software engineer to join our Knowledge and Search engineering team. You will be responsible for designing, implementing and scaling our search capabilities supporting the needs of our users and internal systems.

🧢 Reporting line : Head of Engineering

📍 Location : Paris (France) or London (UK)

What you will do

Key Responsibilities

The Knowledge & Search team is the backbone that connects our customers to the information they need. We are looking for an experienced software engineer to lead our indexing and searching capabilities. In this role, you will work closely with our data and infrastructure teams to build, maintain and scale our search platform while ensuring a high-level of performance and reliability.

Your responsibilities include (but may not be limited to):

• Building, maintaining and enhancing a fast, reliable and scalable indexing and searching capabilities (web and knowledge)
• Working with search-oriented databases to optimise and fine-tune a full search pipeline from document ingestion to retrieval
• Owning our information retrieval systems serving both our internal needs as well as our enterprise customers
• Ensuring that our search capabilities meet the increasing demands of our customers
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to push the boundaries of search reliability, performance, and scale across a range and cloud-native and on-premise services
  
  
  

About You

• 10+ years of relevant professional work experience
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field
• Experience building and scaling distributed search engine systems
• Excellent proficiency in backend software development (Python, Go, C++, Rust...)
• Solid proficiency in infrastructure management (Docker, K8s, Terraform...)
• Good knowledge of cloud-native ecosystems
• Autonomous and self-starter
• Ability to communicate with influence
  
  
  

Location

We do not require you to be based in a specific location as long as it is in one of the countries listed in this job posting. However, you will be expected to be available for a monthly visit to one of our offices:

• 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 If based in France, Germany or Spain: we will ask you to come to our Paris office 3 days per month
• 🇬🇧 If based in the UK: we will ask you to come to our London office 3 days per month
• We will cover 100% of inter-country travelling and 50% of intra-country travelling fees
  
  
  

Besides, please note that we ask all new hires to come to our Paris HQ for the first month of their onboarding (accommodation and travelling covered).

What we offer

💰 Competitive cash salary and equity

🧑‍⚕️ Health insurance *

🚴 Transportation allowance

🥎 Sport allowance

🥕 Meal vouchers

💰 Private pension plan

🍼 Parental : Generous parental leave policy **

🌎 Visa sponsorship **

• currently not available for Germany
• available for France only