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Research Platform Engineer

AI / ML Engineer • Remote • Full-time • 📍 Paris

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.

Stack

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