Data Center Capacity & Contracts Lead

Mistral.ai; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Relocation support

Job summary

Mistral.ai is seeking a senior role to secure data center capacity across Europe for training frontier models and running inference at scale. You will translate workload needs into contract terms, assess site feasibility, and close long-term capacity agreements with developers and partners.

You will collaborate with data center partners and internal teams to align capacity plans with ambitious model roadmaps, shaping the infrastructure backbone for next-generation AI.

Qualifications

• Experience negotiating data center contracts.
• Ability to structure capacity sourcing based on workload needs.
• Translate technical requirements into commercial terms.
• Experience working with European counterparties and jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate master services agreements, order forms, and co-location or built-to-suit contracts with data center developers across Europe.
• Structure capacity sourcing decisions based on workload requirements: training, inference, or hybrid.
• Assess data center sites for power delivery, cooling, connectivity, and commissioning timelines.
• Work with science and infrastructure teams to align capacity plans with model roadmaps.
• Manage relationships with data center partners including Éclairion and EcoDC.

Skills

Data center contracts

Cross-border negotiation

Commercial negotiation

Capacity delivery

Job description

Mistral.ai is seeking a senior role to secure data center capacity across Europe for training frontier models and running inference at scale. You will translate workload needs into contract terms, assess site feasibility, and close long-term capacity agreements with developers and partners.

You will collaborate with data center partners and internal teams to align capacity plans with ambitious model roadmaps, shaping the infrastructure backbone for next-generation AI.