Applied Scientist & Research Engineer – EMEA

Mistral; Lausanne; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mistral is seeking an Applied Scientist/Research Engineer in Lausanne to drive research efforts across text, image, and speech models and deliver measurable AI solutions. You will work with cross-functional teams in science, engineering, and product to develop impactful AI systems.

The role emphasizes building, evaluating, and deploying models at scale, with collaboration across Europe and beyond, contributing to real-world AI applications for enterprise use cases.

Qualifications

• Fluent English with clear communication to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Expert with PyTorch or JAX.
• Able to contribute to a large codebase independently with minimal guidance.
• Proficient in writing clean, high-performance Python code.

Responsibilities

• Run pre-training, post-training and deploy state-of-the-art models on clusters with thousands of GPUs.
• Generate and curate data for pre-training and post-training; evaluate and improve model performance.
• Develop tools and frameworks to enable data generation, training, evaluation and deployment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on complex use cases using agents and retrieval pipelines.
• Manage research projects and communications with client research teams.

Skills

PyTorch or JAX

Python

Independent work

English communication

Education

PhD / Master in Mathematics, Physics, Machine Learning

Tools

Git

Linux

Job description

Mistral is seeking an Applied Scientist/Research Engineer in Lausanne to drive research efforts across text, image, and speech models and deliver measurable AI solutions. You will work with cross-functional teams in science, engineering, and product to develop impactful AI systems.

The role emphasizes building, evaluating, and deploying models at scale, with collaboration across Europe and beyond, contributing to real-world AI applications for enterprise use cases.