engineering
Posted Jun 17, 2025Research Software Engineer - Paris/London
at Mistral AI
Paris, FranceHybrid
Responsibilities
- Accelerate researchers by owning the complex parts of large-scale pipelines and delivering robust internal tooling.
- Write efficient, well-tested Python and systems code; enforce code review, CI, and observability.
- Design and optimise distributed services (Kubernetes / SLURM, thousands-of-GPU jobs).
Requirements
- Master’s in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
- Fluency in Python plus one systems language (C++, Rust, Go or Java).
- Hands-on with container orchestration and schedulers (Kubernetes / K8s, SLURM, or similar).
- Exposure to ML workloads or data-processing pipelines.
- Experience with GPU clusters or CUDA.
Experience
- 4 + years building and operating large-scale or distributed systems.
Additional details
- About the Research Engineering team Based in Paris and London, our REs move fluidly along the research ↔ production spectrum.
- Engineers can rotate between Platform and Embedded tracks as their interests evolve. About you
- Strong software-design instincts: modular code, tests, CI/CD, observability.
- Comfortable profiling performance, optimising I/O, and automating workflows.
- Self-starter, low-ego, collaborative, high-energy. Nice-to-haves
- Open-source contributions or widely used internal tools.