Applied AI, Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer

Mistral AI is seeking a Applied AI Engineer to facilitate the adoption of its products among customers and collaborate with them to address complex technical challenges. The Applied AI Engineer will be an integral part of our Applied AI Engineering team, dedicated to driving the successful deployment of Mistral AI products. They will work hand-in-hand with customers from the pre-sale stage to post-implementation, ensuring our solutions meet and exceed client expectations.

Responsibilities

Onboarding customers on products and APIs, providing guidance on prompting, evaluation, and fine-tuning, and ensuring the best production integration with back-end and front-end interfaces; Working on state-of-the-art GenAI applications from consumer products to industrial use cases, driving with customers a crucial technological transformation; Individually helping deploy into production use cases with considerable business impact across various industries; Collaborating with researchers, other AI engineers, and product engineers on complex customer projects involving complex fine-tuning, state-of-the-art LLM applications, and contributing to open source codebases for tasks such as inference and fine-tuning; Participating in pre-sales calls to understand potential clients' needs, challenges, and aspirations; providing technical guidance on products and explaining Mistral technologies to various stakeholders; Collaborating with product and science teams to continuously improve product and model capabilities based on customers' feedback

Requirements

You are fluent in English and French; You hold a PhD / master in AI / data science; You have 2+ years as a technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer) on AI-based products; You have experience in Fine Tuning LLMs, tackling advanced RAG or agentic use cases; You have deep understanding of concepts and algorithms underlying machine learning and LLMs; You're experienced with building and deploying LLMs or NLP applications; You have proven experience in AI or machine learning product implementation with APIs, back-end and front-end interfaces; You have strong technical coding skills in Python; You have experience with deep learning with Pytorch; You have experience with agents framework such as Langchain, vector DBs; You hold strong communication skills with an ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms with technical and non-technical audiences

Nice to have

Contributed to open-source projects in particular in the space of LLMs; Experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect or Technical Product Manager

Benefits

comprehensive benefits package; healthcare coverage; parental leave; retirement plans; relocation support; wellness programs; meal and transportation allowances; other location-specific perks