Research Engineer - Large-Scale Search & Data Platforms

Mistral; Paris; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Mistral is seeking a seasoned Research Engineer to join our newly forming Search and Services Platform within Research Platform. You’ll design, build and operate large-scale search infrastructure and data pipelines to support model training and data generation, collaborating with researchers and data teams across a fast-paced startup environment.

You will work with Vespa, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and ClickHouse, shaping scalable services and interfaces for researchers and agents.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in search engineering, data infrastructure or a similar SRE/platform role.
• Proficiency in Python and Go with best practices.
• Hands-on experience with Vespa, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, ClickHouse or similar.

Responsabilités

• Design, build and operate large-scale search infrastructure (self-hosted Vespa, managed indexes, vendor endpoints).
• Self-host and maintain diverse data sources (knowledge graphs, scholarly data, statistical databases).
• Design interfaces and tools for models to access services (YQL, SPARQL, MCPs).
• Build data pipelines to ingest, index and serve massive datasets.
• Collaborate with researchers and adjacent teams to enable workflows.
• Create documentation and user-focused content for the services.

Connaissances

Search engineering

Data infrastructure

Python

Go

SRE

Kubernetes

Observability

Communication

Autonomy

Outils

Vespa

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

ClickHouse

PostgreSQL

DuckDB

Kubernetes

Terraform

Description du poste

Mistral is seeking a seasoned Research Engineer to join our newly forming Search and Services Platform within Research Platform. You’ll design, build and operate large-scale search infrastructure and data pipelines to support model training and data generation, collaborating with researchers and data teams across a fast-paced startup environment.

You will work with Vespa, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and ClickHouse, shaping scalable services and interfaces for researchers and agents.