Applied AI, Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer

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Mistral is hiring an Applied AI / Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer to drive customer adoption of its frontier models and APIs. You will guide enterprises from pre-sales through production, covering prompting, evaluation, fine-tuning, and integration of GenAI applications. The role blends hands-on engineering with customer-facing technical consulting across high-stakes industries.

• Onboard customers onto Mistral products and APIs, advising on prompting, evaluation, and fine-tuning
• Deploy state-of-the-art GenAI and LLM applications into production with real business impact
• Collaborate with researchers and product engineers on complex fine-tuning and agentic use cases
• Contribute to open-source codebases for inference and fine-tuning
• Support pre-sales calls to understand client needs and explain Mistral technologies
• Feed customer insights back to product and science teams

• Fluent in English
• PhD or master's in AI or data science
• 2+ years as a technical individual contributor on AI-based products
• Experience fine-tuning LLMs and building advanced RAG or agentic use cases
• Deep understanding of machine learning and LLM concepts and algorithms
• Experience building and deploying LLM or NLP applications
• Strong Python coding skills
• Deep learning experience with PyTorch
• Experience with agent frameworks such as LangChain and vector databases
• Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences

• Contributions to open-source LLM projects
• Prior experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Technical Product Manager