Software Engineer, DevOps, Research Platform

At Mistral AI, we believe in the power of AI to simplify tasks, save time, and enhance learning and creativity.

We are seeking a talented and experienced software engineer to join our Research Platform team. You'll work closely with our R&D team to build a cloud-agnostic platform that improves the stability, scalability, and velocity across the research department. You'll help create and optimize tools that empower researchers to make the most of high-performance clusters.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement complex systems, such as scaling our research CI with a strong focus on reliability, reproducibility, and speed
• Build flexible yet solid and accessible development environments for researchers
• Design, implement, and advocate for solutions addressing large amounts of data and maintainable data pipelines
• Optimize various builds, including container images, large library compilation times, and Python environments
• Build strong relationships with researchers, understand their workflow, and enable them to achieve more by leveraging your expertise
• Communicate and produce documentation or content to help them make the most out of the tools and systems you'll build

Requirements:

• 5+ years of successful experience in a similar DX/DevOps/SRE role
• Proficiency in software development (Python, Go...) and programming best practices
• Exposure to site reliability engineering, root cause analysis, in-production troubleshooting, and on-call rotations
• Exposure to infrastructure management, including CI/CD, containerization, orchestration, infra-as-code, monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability
• Technical product mindset, excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• Ownership, high agency, and a constant drive to learn and improve things for others

Nice to have:

• First-hand Bazel (or equivalent) experience
• Strong knowledge of Python's ecosystem
• Familiarity with GPU-based workloads and ecosystems
• Experience with full remote environments

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity
• Health insurance
• Transportation allowance
• Sport allowance
• Meal vouchers
• Private pension plan
• Generous parental leave policy
• Visa sponsorship