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AI Scientist - Zurich

Mistral AI

Zurichfull-timeResearchHybrid

Posted 8 October 2025

Benefits

Equity / Stock OptionsRetirement PlanMeal Benefits

About this role


What will you do

• Research and develop novel methods to push the frontier of large language models
• Work across use cases (e.g reasoning, code, agents) and modalities (e.g text, image and speech)
• Build tooling and infrastructure to allow training, evaluation and analysis of AI models at scale
• Work cross-functionally with other scientists, engineers and product teams to ship AI systems which have a real-world impact

About you

• You are a highly proficient software engineer in at least one programming language (Python or other, e.g. Rust, Go, Java)
• You have hands-on experience with AI frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, JAX) or distributed systems (e.g. Ray, Kubernetes)
• You have high engineering competence. This means being able to design complex software and make it usable in production
• You are a self-starter, autonomous and a team player

Now, it would be ideal if

• You have hands-on experience with training large transformer models in a distributed fashion
• You are able to navigate the full MLOps stack, for instance, fine-tuning, evaluation and deployment
• You have a strong publication record in a relevant scientific domain

Note that this is not an exhaustive or necessary list of requirements. Please consider applying if you believe you have the skills to contribute to Mistral's mission. We value profile and experience diversity.

Benefits

💰 Competitive cash salary and equity
🥕 Food : Monthly meal allowance
🥎 Sport : Monthly contribution to a Gympass subscription
💰 Private pension plan