Mistral AI
Applied AI, Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer
Palo Alto +2 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jul 10, 2026
- Location
- Palo Alto
New York
San Francisco - Experience
- 2+ years as a technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer) on AI-based products.
- Education
- PhD / master in AI / data science.
About the job
Deploy Mistral AI products with customers, providing technical guidance from presales through production and addressing complex AI implementation challenges.
What you'll do
- Onboard customers to products and APIs, advising on prompting, evaluation, fine-tuning, and production integration.
- Build and deploy LLM applications and customer use cases, collaborating with research, product, and engineering teams.
- Support presales discussions and relay customer feedback to improve products and models.
What they ask for
- Fluent in English.
- PhD / master in AI / data science.
- 2+ years as a technical individual contributor on AI-based products.
- Experience with LLM fine-tuning, advanced RAG or agentic use cases; deploying LLM or NLP applications; AI/ML product implementation; Python and Pytorch.
Nice to have
- Contributed to open-source projects, particularly in LLMs.
- Experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect or Technical Product Manager.
Tools
Python, Pytorch, Langchain
AI focus
Customer-facing deployment of GenAI and LLM applications, including prompting, evaluation, fine-tuning, advanced RAG, agentic use cases, and production integration.
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