Technical Support Engineer, Mistral AI
Level 2, Compute
Generative AI model developers
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Generative AI model developers
501-1000 employees
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501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make frontier AI ubiquitous, and to provide tailor-made AI to all the builders.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in system administration, technical support, or infrastructure operations, with a strong focus on compute-heavy environments (bare metal, cloud, HPC, or virtualization)
- Deep Linux/Unix expertise:
- Debugging kernel-level issues (e.g., OOM killer, I/O bottlenecks, CPU throttling)
- Performance tuning (e.g., sysctl, ulimit, filesystem optimizations)
- Networking troubleshooting (e.g., iptables, tcpdump, DNS, NFS, SSH)
- Storage management (e.g., LVM, RAID, NVMe, GPU-local storage)
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience is mandatory:
- Debugging pods, nodes, and clusters (e.g., kubectl describe, kubectl logs, crictl)
- Networking and storage (e.g., CNI plugins, PersistentVolumes)
- Resource management (e.g., Requests/Limits, QOS classes)
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker, containerd) and basic IaC awareness Proficiency with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
- Basic scripting/automation skills (preferably Go, but Bash or Python are acceptable for ad-hoc tasks)
- Experience with bare metal, virtualization, or HPC environments (e.g., Fluidstack, Coreweave, Vast) is a strong plus
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly and patiently to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Customer-focused mindset with a passion for resolving issues efficiently and improving system reliability
- Ability to work in on-call rotations and handle high-pressure situations with a structured, calm approach
- Commitment to meeting tight SLAs for issue acknowledgment, triage, and first response
What the job involves
- Mistral AI is building a new Compute Support team to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our GPU clusters in a Kubernetes environment. As one of the founding members of this team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping its processes, standards, and culture
- In this hybrid L1/L2 support role, you will be the first point of contact for customers and internal teams, providing technical guidance, troubleshooting, and issue resolution for compute-related inquiries. You’ll also serve as the escalation point for complex issues, leveraging your deep systems knowledge, Kubernetes expertise, and operational debugging skills to ensure our AI workloads run smoothly at scale
- This is a support-focused role that blends system administration, customer-facing communication, and compute infrastructure expertise. While coding is not the primary focus, familiarity with Go for debugging and automation is a plus
- Act as the first interlocutor for customers and internal teams, providing timely and effective responses to compute-related inquiries
- Triage and prioritize incoming requests, ensuring SLAs are met for acknowledgment, first response, and resolution
- Gather and analyze initial issue details (e.g., logs, error messages, system metrics) to diagnose problems efficiently
- Provide clear, actionable guidance to customers and internal users, including temporary workarounds where applicable
- Serve as the L2 escalation point for Linux, Kubernetes, and compute infrastructure issues, providing deep technical troubleshooting for:
- GPU/TPU workloads (e.g., CUDA errors, memory leaks, job failures)
- Kubernetes clusters (e.g., pod crashes, node failures, networking misconfigurations)
- Bare metal and cloud environments (e.g., AWS EC2, GCP VMs, HPC clusters)
- Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks, hardware failures, and resource contention in distributed systems
- Analyze system metrics, logs, and traces (e.g., dmesg, journalctl, nvidia-smi, Prometheus, Grafana) to identify root causes of issues
- Participate in on-call rotations to provide 24/7 support for critical compute systems
- Nice to have: Optimize system configurations (e.g., kernel parameters, filesystem tuning, network settings) for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads
- Debug Kubernetes clusters with a focus on:
- Pod and node issues (e.g., CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, ImagePullBackOff)
- Networking and storage (e.g., CNI plugins, PersistentVolumes, StorageClasses)
- Resource management (e.g., Requests/Limits, QOS classes, node affinity)
- Troubleshoot container runtime issues (Docker, containerd) such as image pull failures, OCI compliance, or runtime errors
- Collaborate with SRE teams to understand and improve existing IaC (Terraform, Ansible) and Go-based tooling
- Create and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and internal documentation for common compute issues (e.g., GPU debugging, Kubernetes troubleshooting)
- Contribute to post-mortems with actionable follow-ups to prevent recurring incidents
- Train internal teams on best practices for compute infrastructure and debugging
- Help define and refine support processes as a founding member of the new Compute Support team
Our take
Founded by Facebook AI researchers, Mistral AI focuses on developing open-source generative AI models to "make AI useful." It emerged in early 2023, quickly achieving a $260 million valuation.
Mistral features up to 176 billion parameters, and its open-source nature has sparked concerns about potential misuse. However, Mistral remains a formidable competitor in the AI landscape, challenging models from Google and Meta.
In 2025, Mistral secured a massive €1.7 billion funding round, raising its valuation to €11.7 billion. This Series B funding, led by European chip firm ASML, underscores significant interest in alternatives to ChatGPT and a push away from Silicon Valley dependence by European AI competitors.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2025
$1.9bn
SERIES C
Jun 2024
$528.5m
SERIES B
Total funding: $3.0bn
Company benefits
- Competitive bonus structure
- Equity
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
Company HQ
Villette, Paris, France
Leadership
Timothee Lacroix
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously PhD and Software Engineer Intern at Facebook and Visiting Undergraduate at CAlab UCSD
Guillaume Lample
(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)Research Student and Scientist at Facebook AI and Research Intern at Jane Street Capital
Arthur Mensch
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind, Post-doc researcher at École normale supérieure, Visiting Researcher at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and PhD Student at Inria
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