Applied AI, Frontier Data Engineering, Staff

ABOUT MISTRAL Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector, co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms. We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited. ABOUT THE JOB As a Applied AI, Frontier Data Engineering, Staff, you will build the systems behind some of the hardest problems Mistral takes on. You join our team of engineers in Applied AI. We gravitate towards hard problems, decide how to solve them, and ship fast. You work closely with our customer-facing teams, and what works goes into production with our customers and across the company. When a project needs it, you work directly on customer engagements. We're looking for a strong software engineer who builds end to end and has shipped ML or GenAI systems to production. You've felt the pain of models that pass every eval and fail on real data, and of quality that drifts after launch. You've also felt the data engineering pain: pipelines that break silently, schemas that change under you, and backfills that take a weekend. Data engineering is your edge. You turn messy, large-scale data into systems that hold up. You think like a founder. You start from the customer's problem, not the technology. You measure success by the value you deliver, and you care about building experiences people love to use. You like working at the edge of what AI can do today, and you push past it. Your scope is end to end, from first prototype to production. Your depth in data architecture helps set the standar