Research Platform Engineer

About Mistral

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The following role is described for a Software Engineer on the Research Platform team.

Role Summary

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.

Reporting line: Research Engineering, Platform Lead

Location: Europe (France or UK)

What you will do

• Designing and implementing complex systems (e.g. scale our research CI with a strong focus toward reliability, reproducibility and speed)
• Building flexible yet solid and accessible development environment for researchers, so they can focus on core mission.
• Designing, implementing and advocating for solutions addressing large amounts of data and maintainable data pipelines.
• Optimizing a variety of builds: container images, large libraries compilation times, Python environments...
• Building strong relationships with researchers, understanding their workflow and enabling them to achieve more by leveraging your expertise.
• Communicating and producing documentation or any content that will help them to make the most out of the tools and systems you'll build.
• Being part of the team that platformizes research and constantly improves the daily experience for researchers while avoiding future roadblocks.

About you

• 5+ years of successful experience in a similar DX / DevOps / SRE role.
• Proficiency in software development (Python, Go, etc.) and programming best practices.
• Exposure to site reliability engineering: root cause analysis, in-production troubleshooting, on-call rotations, etc.
• Exposure to infrastructure management: CI/CD, containerization, orchestration, infra-as-code, monitoring, logging, alerting, observability.
• Technical product mindset (e.g. understanding how to debug poor adoption).
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills (ability to contextualize, gauge risks and gain buy-in for high-stakes solutions).
• Ownership, high agency and constant desire to learn and improve things for others.
• Autonomous, self-driven and able to work well in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Low ego and team-spirited mindset.
• Your application will be all the more interesting if you also have:

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

Hiring Process

• Intro Call - 30 min
• Tech Culture Interview - 30 min
• Technical Rounds - 2 x 45 min
• Culture-fit Discussion - 30 min
• Reference Calls

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Location & Remote

This role is primarily based at one of our European offices (Paris, France and London, UK). We will prioritize candidates who either reside there or are open to relocating. We strongly believe in the value of in-person collaboration to foster strong relationships and seamless communication within our team.

In certain specific situations, we will also consider remote candidates based in one of the countries listed in this job posting — currently France & UK. In that case, we ask all new hires to visit our local office:

• for the first week of onboarding (accommodation and travelling covered)
• then at least 3 days per month

What we offer

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

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