Software Engineer, Research Platform

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 Research Platform team. You'll work closely with the research and infrastructure team to improve the stability, scalability and velocity across the research department. You will be involved in creating and maintaining internal tools, empowering researchers to make out the most of high performance clusters, building and scaling a future proof CI.

Reporting line: Research Engineering Lead

Location: 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇪🇸

What you will do

As a Platform Engineer, your responsibilities will include (but may not be limited to):

• Designing and implementing complex systems (e.g. scale our research CI with a strong focus toward reliability, reproducibility and speed)s
• Building flexible yet solid and accessible development environment for researchers, so they can focus on core mission
• Designing, implementing and advocating for solutions addressing large amounts of data and maintainable data pipelines
• Optimizing a variety of builds: container images, large libraries compilation times, python environments..
• Building strong relationships with researchers, understanding their workflow and enabling them to achieve more by leveraging your expertise
• Communicating and producing documentation or any content that will help them to make the most out of the tools and systems you'll build
• Being part of the team that "platformizes" research and constantly improve the daily experience for researchers while avoiding future roadblocks
  
  
  

About You

• 5+ years of successful experience in a similar DX / DevOps / SRE role
• Proficiency in software development (Python, Go...) and programming best practices
• Exposure to site reliability engineering: root cause analysis, in-production troubleshooting, on-call rotations...)
• Exposure to infrastructure management: CI/CD, containerization, orchestration, infra-as-code, monitoring, logging, alerting, observability...)
• Technical product mindset (e.g. understanding how to debug poor adoption)
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills (ability to contextualizing, gauging risks and getting buy-in for high stakes and impactful solutions)
• Ownership, high agency and constantly seeking to learn and improving things for others
• Autonomous, self-driven and able to work well in a fast-paced startup environment
• Low ego and team spirit mindset
  
  
  

Your application will be all the more interesting if you also have:

• First hand Bazel (or equivalent) experience
• Strong knowledge of Python's ecosystem
• Familiarity with GPU based workloads and ecosystems
• Experience of full remote environments (you're comfortable with having some of your users on the other side of the globe)
  
  
  

Hiring Process

• Intro Call - 30 min
• Tech Culture Interview - 30 min
• Technical Rounds - 3 x 45 min
• Culture-fit Discussion - 30 min
• Reference Calls
  
  
  

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