Tabular AI Scientist & Research Engineer (SOTA)

Mistral; Paris; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mistral AI is seeking Applied Scientists and Research Engineers focused on tabular data to design, train, and deploy state-of-the-art models that understand, query, and reason over structured data. You will work across external and internal science, engineering, and product teams to deliver high-impact AI solutions.

We are a dynamic, collaborative team building AI systems for finance, manufacturing, healthcare, and the public sector, with a culture of low ego and curiosity.

Qualifications

• Fluent English with clear communication.
• Expert with PyTorch or JAX.
• Experience training or fine-tuning large language models.
• Strong ML background on tabular data; SQL and pandas familiarity.
• Writes clean, high-performance Python code.
• Independent, collaborative and eager to learn.

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; build evaluators and benchmarks.
• Develop 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

PyTorch / JAX

LLM training

Tabular ML

SQL / Pandas

Python

Independent working

Education

PhD / Master in CS or related field

Job description

Mistral AI is seeking Applied Scientists and Research Engineers focused on tabular data to design, train, and deploy state-of-the-art models that understand, query, and reason over structured data. You will work across external and internal science, engineering, and product teams to deliver high-impact AI solutions.

We are a dynamic, collaborative team building AI systems for finance, manufacturing, healthcare, and the public sector, with a culture of low ego and curiosity.