Applied AI, Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer

Mistral•Palo Alto, CA

About The Position

Mistral AI is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to facilitate the adoption of its products among customers and collaborate with them to address complex technical challenges. The Applied AI Engineer will be an integral part of our Applied AI Engineering team, which is dedicated to driving the successful deployment of Mistral AI products. They will work hand-in-hand with customers from the pre-sale stage to post-implementation, ensuring our solutions meet and exceed client expectations. In this role, you’ll manage daily customer relations involving multiple stakeholders (CEO/CTO, data scientists, and software engineers) and function as a key resource in externalising our research in production settings.

Requirements

Fluent in English
PhD / Master's degree in AI / Data Science
2+ years as a technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer) on AI-based products
Experience in Fine Tuning LLMs, tackling advanced RAG or agentic use cases
Deep understanding of concepts and algorithms underlying machine learning and LLMs
Experience with building and deploying LLMs or NLP applications
Proven experience in AI or machine learning product implementation with APIs, back-end and front-end interfaces
Strong technical coding skills in Python
Experience with deep learning with PyTorch
Experience with agents frameworks such as Langchain, vector DBs
Strong communication skills with an ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms with technical and non-technical audiences

Nice To Haves

Contributed to open-source projects in particular in the space of LLMs
Experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect or Technical Product Manager

Responsibilities

Onboarding customers on our products and APIs, providing guidance on prompting, evaluation, and fine-tuning, and ensuring the best production integration with back-end and front-end interfaces.
Working on state-of-the-art GenAI applications from consumer products to industrial use cases, driving with our customers a crucial technological transformation.
Individually helping deploy into production use cases with a considerable business impact across various industries.
Collaborating with researchers, other AI engineers, and product engineers on complex customer projects involving complex fine-tuning, state-of-the-art LLM applications, and contributing to open source codebases for tasks such as inference and fine-tuning.
Involvement in pre-sales calls to understand potential clients' needs, challenges, and aspirations, and providing technical guidance on our products and explaining Mistral technologies to various stakeholders.
Collaboration with product and science teams to continuously improve product and model capabilities based on customer feedback.