Research Platform Engineer at Mistral AI, working closely with the R&D team to build a cloud-agnostic platform that improves stability, scalability and velocity across the research department, creating and optimizing tools that empower researchers to make the most of high-performance clusters. Located in France or UK.
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Responsibilities
- ▹Design and implement complex systems (e.g. scale research CI with a focus on reliability, reproducibility and speed)
- ▹Build a flexible, solid and accessible development environment for researchers
- ▹Design, implement and advocate for solutions addressing large amounts of data and maintainable data pipelines
- ▹Optimize a variety of builds: container images, large library compilation times, Python environments, etc.
- ▹Build strong relationships with researchers, understanding their workflow and enabling them to achieve more
- ▹Communicate and produce documentation and content to help researchers get the most out of the tools and systems
- ▹Be part of the team that 'platformizes' research and continuously improves the daily experience for researchers
Requirements
- ▹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)
- ▹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
- ▹Ownership, high agency and a drive 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 spirit mindset
Nice to 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
Soft skills
Excellent problem-solving and communicationOwnership and high agencyAutonomous and self-drivenLow ego and team spirit
Languages: angol