Tabular AI Research Engineer & Applied Scientist

Mistral Ai; Paris; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Mistral AI is seeking Applied Scientists and Research Engineers focused on tabular data. You will design, train, and deploy state-of-the-art models that understand, query, and reason over structured data, applying them to diverse use cases.

You will work cross-functionally with internal science, engineering, and product teams to deliver high-impact AI solutions. Our team includes researchers, engineers, and product builders tackling real-world problems in industry.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English with excellent communication skills — at ease explaining complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Expert with PyTorch or JAX.
• Experience training or fine-tuning large language models, or tabular foundation models (e.g. TabPFN).
• Strong background in machine learning on tabular data, including classical baselines (e.g. gradient boosting), and comfortable with SQL, pandas, and messy real-world data.
• Not afraid of contributing to a big codebase; finds their way around independently with little guidance.
• Writes clean, readable, high-performance, fault-tolerant Python code.
• Doesn’t need roadmaps: moves independently and navigates uncertainty with confidence.
• Low-ego, collaborative and eager to learn.
• Track record of success through personal projects, professional projects or academia.

Responsibilities

• Run pre-training, post-training and deploy state of the art models on clusters with thousands of GPUs.
• Generate and curate datasets of tables, spreadsheets and databases, and build evaluators and benchmarks for table understanding, text-to-SQL, and prediction on tabular data.
• Develop the necessary tools and frameworks to facilitate 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.

Skills

Fluent English

Strong communication

Independent worker

Team player

Education

PhD or Master in CS/Statistics/ML

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Python

SQL

Pandas

Job description

Mistral AI is seeking Applied Scientists and Research Engineers focused on tabular data. You will design, train, and deploy state-of-the-art models that understand, query, and reason over structured data, applying them to diverse use cases.

You will work cross-functionally with internal science, engineering, and product teams to deliver high-impact AI solutions. Our team includes researchers, engineers, and product builders tackling real-world problems in industry.