Applied AI Engineer, Mistral AI

• You are fluent in English
• You hold a PhD / master in AI / data science
• You have 2+ years as a technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer) on AI-based products
• You have experience in Fine Tuning LLMs, tackling advanced RAG or agentic use cases
• You have deep understanding of concepts and algorithms underlying machine learning and LLMs
• You're experienced with building and deploying LLMs or NLP applications
• You have proven experience in AI or machine learning product implementation with APIs, back-end and front-end interfaces
• You have strong technical coding skills in Python
• You have experience with deep learning with Pytorch
• You have experience with agents framework such as Langchain, vector DBs
• You hold strong communication skills with an ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms with technical and non-technical audiences

Desirable

• Mistral AI is seeking an Applied Scientist to drive innovative research and facilitate the adoption of its products among customers, collaborating with them to address complex technical challenges
• The Applied Scientist will be an integral part of our Applied AI Engineering team, which is dedicated to driving the successful deployment of Mistral AI products
• They will work hand-in-hand with customers from the pre-sale stage to post-implementation, ensuring our solutions meet and exceed client expectations
• In this role, you’ll manage daily customer relations involving multiple stakeholders (CEO/CTO, data scientists, and software engineers) and function as a key resource in externalizing our research in production settings
• Work in collaboration with our researchers, other AI engineers, and product engineers on our most complex customer projects involving co-training, fine-tuning, and various special projects
• Evaluate and improve the performance of our models on a variety of use cases (e.g., reasoning, code, RAG, tool use, agents) and across modalities (text, image, speech)
• Develop complex use cases with our customers, providing guidance on prompting, evaluation, and fine-tuning, and ensuring the best production integration with back-end and front-end interfaces
• Maintain a suite of technical packages, including scientific tooling design to help customers