Mistral AI
Applied Scientist
Palo Alto +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026
- Location
- Palo Alto
New York - Education
- A PhD or master’s in a relevant field is nice to have; exceptional candidates from different backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
About the job
Develop and deploy state-of-the-art models across modalities, applying research to client use cases and delivering AI solutions with internal and external teams.
What you'll do
- Run pre-training, post-training, and deployment of models on large GPU clusters; generate and curate data and evaluate model performance.
- Build tools and frameworks for data generation, training, evaluation, and deployment; collaborate on use cases involving agents and RAG pipelines.
- Manage research projects and communicate with client research teams.
What they ask for
- Expertise with PyTorch or JAX.
- Ability to write clean, readable, high-performance, fault-tolerant Python code.
- Strong communication skills, including explaining technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Track record of success through personal projects, professional projects, or academia.
Nice to have
- PhD or master’s in a relevant field, or an exceptional candidate from a different background.
- Research experience in agents, multi-modality, robotics, diffusion, or time-series; large-codebase contributions or top academic publications.
Tools
PyTorch, JAX, Python, NCCL, GPU
AI focus
Develop, train, evaluate, and deploy models across text, image, and speech; work on pre-training, post-training, agents, and RAG pipelines.
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