Founder in Residence, Open Application for Founders

Mistral; Paris; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive cash salary and equity

Daily lunch vouchers

Monthly Gympass subscription contribution

Monthly mobility pass contribution

Full health insurance

Generous parental leave policy

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Mistral, located in Paris, is seeking individuals to join their Solutions team. As a key player, you will work directly with enterprise clients, focusing on deploying AI models that meet their unique needs.

This role allows for substantial client engagement, whether strategizing for C-level adoption or implementing integration architectures. Benefits include competitive salary, health insurance, and various support perks.

Qualifications

• Experience in founding or co-founding a company.
• Ability to communicate with executives and technical teams.
• Curiosity about AI technologies.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of enterprise clients; primary point of contact.
• Identify high-impact use cases and structure deployment.
• Bridge the gap between client needs and AI capabilities.

Skills

Deployment strategy

Client relationship management

AI technology understanding

Integration architecture

Job description

About Mistral

At Mistral AI, we believe in the power of AI to simplify tasks, save time, and enhance learning and creativity. Our technology is designed to integrate seamlessly into daily working life, democratizing AI through high-performance, open-source models, products, and solutions. Our comprehensive AI platform meets enterprise needs, whether on-premises or in the cloud, and includes tools like Le Chat, La Plateforme, and Mistral Compute.

We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed across France, the USA, the UK, Germany, and Singapore. We are creative, low-ego, and team-spirited.

Join us to be part of a pioneering company shaping the future of AI. Together, we can make a meaningful impact. Learn more about our culture here.

You built something from nothing. Do it again, within the best frontier AI company in Europe.

It’s an open invitation for people who have founded, co-founded, or led a company and want to deploy Europe’s most advanced AI models inside the enterprises that need them most.

We’re not asking for a perfect resume. We’re asking whether you’ve built something real, with real users, real problems, and real constraints.

What you will do

You join Mistral’s Solutions team. Your mission: take our models and make them indispensable for our enterprise clients.

• You own a portfolio of enterprise clients. You’re their primary point of contact working as a co‑builder with them.
• You identify the highest‑impact use cases, structure the deployment, and unblock friction.
• You bridge the gap between what our models can do and what the client needs to solve. Sometimes it’s a prompting problem. Sometimes it’s a CEO problem.
• You feed signal back to product and research. You are the eyes and ears on the ground.

Two tracks, one entry point

Deployment Strategist

• Focused on deployment strategy, the business case, C‑level adoption, and expanding accounts.
• Delivers executive workshops, adoption roadmaps, and ROI proposals.

Applied AI Engineer

• Focused on integration architecture, fine‑tuning, RAG/agents, and production deployment.
• Delivers prototypes, deployment pipelines, client code, and open‑source contributions.

About you

• You’ve founded or co‑founded a company, no matter the size or sector or if it’s still running.
• You’ve sold a product to customers, built a team, or raised money. You know what “skin in the game” means.
• You can talk to a CEO in the morning and debug a pipeline in the afternoon or at least know who to call to get it done.
• You’re comfortable with ambiguity. We won’t hand you a 50-page playbook. We’ll hand you a client and an objective.
• You have genuine curiosity about AI. You don’t need to have trained a model, but you need to understand what this technology is and why it changes everything.

Benefits

• Competitive cash salary and equity.
• Daily lunch vouchers.
• Monthly contribution to a Gympass subscription.
• Monthly contribution to a mobility pass.
• Full health insurance for you and your family.
• Generous parental leave policy.
• Visa sponsorship.

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