Code Data Annotation Quality Specialist

About Mistral

At Mistral we are on a mission to democratize AI, producing frontier intelligence for everyone, developed in the open, and built by engineers all over the world. 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, with teams distributed between Europe, the USA and Asia.

Role Summary

We’re seeking highly motivated Data Quality Specialists with strong analytical skills and a keen eye for detail to join our Human Data Annotation team within the Science organisation.

This is a hybrid quality reviewing and tooling role: you'll spend the majority of your time reviewing and auditing code annotations against rubrics to ensure data used for training and evaluating AI models meets a high bar, and the remainder building, maintaining, and troubleshooting the internal tooling that annotators rely on day-to-day.

You’ll collaborate closely with the annotators, technical program manager, and engineer stakeholders, and contribute to refining the guidelines and processes that shape how our data is produced.

Key Responsibilities

• Generate and validate high-quality data annotations, based on guidelines and continuous feedback, for the development and evaluation of AI models
• Surface systemic issues, edge cases, and gaps in guidelines back to annotation operations and technical stakeholders
• Produce annotations yourself when needed, modeling the quality bar expected of the team
• Build and maintain internal tools and automation that streamline annotator workflows such as visualization dashboards, batch configuration scripts, output management utilities, and similar
• Troubleshoot environment, tooling, and CLI/git issues for annotators on their local machines, liaising with IT and engineering as needed

About You

• A degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field. Alternatively, 2 to 5 years of professional experience in software engineering, technical support, or developing tools
• Hands‑on experience using code agents (e.g. Mistral’s vibe) in your own development workflow, and genuine interest in how they're evolving
• Proficient in at least one programming language (e.g. Python, JavaScript, or similar), with enough breadth to read and reason about code across a few core languages
• Able to apply consistent judgment against a rubric and surface edge cases, ambiguities, or gaps in guidelines
• Sustained focus and accuracy on detail‑oriented, high‑volume review work
• Comfortable working in a Unix‑like terminal: shell basics, package managers, environment setup, and git workflows (branches, merges, resolving conflicts)
• Able to troubleshoot local development environment issues (dependencies, virtual environments, paths, permissions) across common operating systems
• Professional proficiency in English, with strong writing and comprehension skills

Nice to have

• Prior experience in data annotation for AI/ML, especially LLM training (SFT, RLHF, preference data), evals/benchmarks, or agentic data
• Experience building an annotation team through interviews and training
• Experience supporting technical users or troubleshooting developer environments (internal tools support, DevRel, teaching assistant for coding courses, etc.)
• Fluency across multiple programming languages, or domain depth in one of: frontend, backend, DevOps, MLOps, data engineering
• Familiarity with rubric‑based evaluation concepts, inter‑annotator agreement, or quality measurement for human‑labeled data
• Experience developing, deploying, and managing internal tooling or automation scripts

Benefits

France

Competitive cash salary and equity

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

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