Founding Team Lead Applied AI Engineering - Infra & Platform, South Korea

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   Mistral AI is seeking a founding Team Lead of our Applied AI Engineering Deployment team in Korea. The Applied AI Engineering Deployment team is focused on DevOps to facilitate the adoption of its products among customers and collaborate with them to address complex technical challenges. This is a player-coach role with roughly 70% hands-on technical work, and 30% people leadership. Applied AI Engineers, Deployment at Mistral AI work directly with customers to quickly understand their greatest challenges and design and implement AI solutions. In this role, you’ll apply your problem-solving ability, creativity, and technical skills to help organizations use AI to drive real impact in the world. You’ll have the opportunity to gain rare insight into and contribute to some of the most important industries and institutions globally! Applied AI Engineers, Deployment responsibilities look similar to those of a startup CTO: you’ll work in small teams and own end-to-end execution of high-stakes projects. A day might span discussing architecture with fellow engineers, wrangling massive-scale data, coding a custom web app, speaking with customer executives, or establishing a strategy for the Applied Engineering team.   What you will do   - You’ll be responsible for onboarding customer