Lead Robotics AI Scientist (EMEA)

Mistral; Vaud; On-site; CHF 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Mistral is seeking a Lead/Staff Applied Scientist to guide robotics research and collaborative industrial efforts. You will set direction for models, data strategies, and benchmarks, and lead teams to deliver high-impact AI robotics solutions.

You will work across science, engineering and product groups, shipping robust VLM/VLA models on real robots, while mentoring researchers and engineers and engaging with client partners to scale solutions.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English with excellent communication skills, capable of explaining complex concepts to varied audiences.
• Experience leading a technical AI, science or engineering team, balancing IC work with leadership.
• Expert with PyTorch or JAX.
• Deep experience with Vision-Language Models (VLM) and Vision-Language-Action (VLA), including perception, navigation and manipulation.
• Track record of shipping models on real robots.
• Strong Python coding skills with readable, performant code.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for robotics in Applied Science, deciding problems, models, data and benchmarks to invest in.
• Lead the technical execution of robotics projects with customers and partners, from scoping to deployment.
• Build and mentor a team of robotics Applied Scientists and Research Engineers.
• Run pre-training, post-training and deploy state-of-the-art models on clusters with thousands of GPUs.
• Own data strategy: generate and curate datasets (image-text, video-text, teleoperation, simulation) and build evaluators/benchmarks.
• Develop tools and frameworks to enable data generation, model training, evaluation and deployment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to tackle complex use cases.
• Manage research projects and communications with client research teams and stakeholders.

Skills

Team leadership

PyTorch

Vision-Language Models

Vision-Language-Action

Robotics

Python

JAX

Simulation tools

Education

Robotics MS/PhD

Tools

Isaac SIM

Job description

Mistral is seeking a Lead/Staff Applied Scientist to guide robotics research and collaborative industrial efforts. You will set direction for models, data strategies, and benchmarks, and lead teams to deliver high-impact AI robotics solutions.

You will work across science, engineering and product groups, shipping robust VLM/VLA models on real robots, while mentoring researchers and engineers and engaging with client partners to scale solutions.