Systems Engineer, Mistral AI

• Strong Linux systems administration experience (core requirement)
• Experience working in large-scale environments:
• HPC clusters or cloud infrastructure
• Experience with Job schedulers (e.g. Slurm)
• Solid troubleshooting skills across systems, hardware, and networks
• Pragmatic problem solver who can operate in fast-scaling environments
• Comfortable working across multiple domains (“Swiss army knife” mindset)
• Able to go deep in one area while learning others
• Low-ego, collaborative, and hands-on

Desirable

• We are looking for Systems Engineers / System Administrators to help design, operate, and scale the infrastructure behind Mistral’s AI platforms
• This is a hands-on, hybrid role combining:
• Systems administration (operating and troubleshooting large-scale Linux environments)
• Systems engineering (automation, scalability, and performance improvements)
• You’ll work closely with infrastructure, HPC, and research teams to ensure our clusters and platforms run reliably at scale
• Operate and maintain large-scale Linux environments (bare metal, clusters, cloud)
• Monitor system health, troubleshoot incidents, and ensure high availability
• Support production and research workloads across multiple environments
• Help scale clusters toward hundreds to thousands of nodes
• Work on systems handling petabyte-scale storage
• Improve performance, reliability, and resource utilisation
• Automate operational tasks using tools like Python, Bash, Ansible, or Terraform
• Improve deployment, provisioning, and system lifecycle management
• Contribute to system design and architecture decisions
• Work closely with:
• HPC / infrastructure teams
• Platform / DevOps engineers
• Research teams
• Act as a bridge between users and infrastructure