AI Scientist - Paris/London

Role summary 
We are a small, creative team with high scientific standards. We make compute-efficient, useful and powerful AI models with both a strong research focus and a fast-paced entrepreneurial mindset. We are hiring experts in the role of pre-training and fine-tuning large language models.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop novel methods and research ideas to improve the performance of our models.
• Evaluate and improve the performance of our models on a variety of use cases (e.g reasoning, code, rag, tool use, agents) and across modalities (text, image, speech).
• Develop tooling to facilitate data work and modeling iteration.
• Work cross functionally with other scientists, engineering and product teams to ship novel AI applications.

You may be a good fit if

• You are familiar with Python
• You are a highly proficient software engineer in a least one programming language (Python or other e.g. Rust, Go, Java)
• You have, hands-on experience with AI frameworks and tools (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jax)
• You have high technical engineering competence. This means being able to design complex software and make them usable in production
• You have a high scientific track record in a field of science.
• You are a team-player, self-starter and autonomous.
• Collaborative and have a real team player mindset.

Now, it would be ideal if
• You have hands-on experience with Generative AI (e.g. experience with transformer based models), a broad knowledge of the field of AI
• You’re an expert in your AI field.
• You have a publication record.
• You have a strong  interest in fine-tuning and using language models for applications.
• You are able to navigate the full MLOps technical stack, with a focus on architecture development and model evaluation and usage
• You have experience in Audio/Speech experience - audio input/out, NLP etc

Note that this is not an exhaustive or necessary list of requirements, please consider applying if you believe you have the skills to contribute to Mistral's mission, we value profile and experience diversity.

Benefits

• Competitive cash salary
• Equity

France
• 🥕 Food : Daily lunch vouchers
• 🥎 Sport : Monthly contribution to a Gympass subscription
• 🚴 Transportation : Monthly contribution to a mobility pass
• 🧑‍⚕️ Health : Full health insurance for you and your family
• 🍼 Parental : Generous parental leave policy
• 🌎 Visa sponsorship

UK
• 🧑‍⚕️ Health : Competitive Healthcare program
• 🏠 Pension : Monthly contribution
• 🚴 Transportation: Monthly contribution 
• 🥎 Sport: Monthly contribution
• 🌎 Visa sponsorship 

About Mistral 
At Mistral AI, our mission is to make AI ubiquitous and open. We are passionate about bridging the gap between technology and businesses of all sizes. We are a leading innovator in the field of open-source large language models.
Our advanced LLM solutions can be seamlessly deployed on any cloud, allowing for optimized integration and robust performance. Developers are using our API via la Plateforme to build incredible AI-first applications powered by our models that can understand and generate natural language text and code. We are multilingual at our core. We released le Chat, as a demonstrator of our models.
We are a tight-knit, nimble team dedicated to bringing our cutting-edge AI technology to the world. Our teams are distributed between France, UK and USA. We are creative, low-ego, team-spirited, and have been passionate about AI for years. We hire people who thrive in competitive environments, because they find them more fun to work in. We hire passionate women and men from all over the world.