Applied Scientist, Mistral AI

• Fluent in English with excellent communication skills — at ease explaining complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Expert with PyTorch or JAX
• Not afraid of contributing to a big codebase; finds their way around independently with little guidance
• Writes clean, readable, high-performance, fault-tolerant Python code
• Doesn’t need roadmaps: moves independently and navigates uncertainty with confidence
• Low-ego, collaborative and eager to learn
• Track record of success through personal projects, professional projects or academia

Desirable

• Mistral AI is seeking Applied Scientists and Research Engineers to drive innovative research and collaborate with clients on complex research projects
• You will develop SOTA models across different modalities such as text, image, and speech
• By developing novel methods and research ideas you will apply these models across a diverse set of use cases and domains
• Working cross-functionally with both external and internal science, engineering, and product teams you will deliver high-impact AI solutions that turn the needle
• We are made of researchers, engineers, product builders, ex-founders who love tackling the most complex real world problems in the industry
• Run pre-training, post-training and deploy state of the art models on clusters with thousands of GPUs
• Work across a diverse set of complex real world problems such as robotics, engineering, finance, cybersecurity, physics and more
• Generate and curate data for pre-training and post-training, working on evaluations and making sure the model's performance beats expectations
• 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 using agents and retrieval pipelines
• Manage research projects and communications with client research teams