Applied AI, Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer - EMEA

Mistral AI; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering AI company is seeking an Applied AI Engineer in City Of London to drive product adoption among customers. The role involves managing customer relations and deploying AI products with significant business impact. Candidates should hold a PhD or master’s in AI, have 7–10+ years of experience, and possess strong communication skills. This position offers competitive salary and benefits including pension plans and gym memberships.

Benefits

Competitive cash salary

Equity

Transportation reimbursements

Meal allowance

Gym membership reimbursement

Pension plan

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years as a technical individual contributor on AI-based products.
• Experience in handling advanced RAG or agentic use cases.
• Deployment of products with large-scale user bases.

Responsibilities

• Help deploy production use cases across various industries.
• Work on GenAI applications guiding technological transformations.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers on complex customer projects.
• Participate in pre-sales calls to understand client needs.
• Improve products based on customer feedback.

Skills

Fluent in English

Strong communication skills

Experience with fine-tuning LLMs

Understanding of machine learning algorithms

Cloud infrastructure knowledge

Education

PhD or master’s degree in AI/data science

Tools

Experience in deploying AI-based products

Job description

About Mistral

Mistral AI is a dynamic, collaborative company focused on AI innovation. We democratize AI through high-performance, optimized, open-source models, products and solutions, designed to meet enterprise needs whether on-premises or in cloud environments. Our teams are distributed across France, USA, UK, Germany and Singapore and are committed to driving innovation.

Join us to be part of a pioneering company shaping the future of AI. See more about our culture at mistral.ai/careers.

About The Job

Mistral AI is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to facilitate the adoption of its products among customers and collaborate with them to address complex technical challenges. You will be an integral part of the Applied AI Engineering team, driving the deployment of Mistral AI products and building complex enterprise use-cases. You will work with customers from pre-sale to post-implementation to ensure our solutions meet and exceed expectations.

You will manage customer relations involving multiple stakeholders (CEO/CTO, data scientists, and software engineers) and serve as a key resource in externalizing our research in production settings.

What you will do

• You’ll individually help deploy production use cases with a considerable business impact across various industries.
• You’ll work on state-of-the-art GenAI applications, from consumer products to industrial use cases, guiding a crucial technological transformation with our customers.
• You’ll collaborate with researchers, other AI engineers, and product engineers on complex customer projects involving fine-tuning, state-of-the-art LLM applications, and contributing to open-source codebases for tasks such as inference and fine-tuning.
• You’ll participate in pre-sales calls to understand potential clients' needs, challenges, and aspirations, and provide technical guidance on our products and technologies.
• You’ll collaborate with our product and science teams to continuously improve our product and model capabilities based on customer feedback.

About you

• You are fluent in English.
• You hold a PhD or master’s degree in AI/data science or you are self-made.
• You have 7–10+ years as a technical individual contributor on AI-based products.
• You have experience in fine-tuning LLMs and tackling advanced RAG or agentic use cases.
• You have a deep understanding of machine learning and LLM algorithms.
• You have a solid understanding of cloud infrastructure and deploying AI-based products.
• You have deployed or built products with large-scale user bases.
• You have strong communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ideally you have:
  • Contributed to open-source projects in the LLM space.
  • Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Staff Engineer ML, or Staff Data Scientist.

Benefits

• We have local offices in Paris, London, Marseille, Amsterdam and Singapore.
• France: Competitive cash salary and equity; daily lunch vouchers; gym/health benefits; parental leave; visa sponsorship.
• UK: Competitive cash salary and equity; insurance; transportation reimbursements; gym membership reimbursement; meal allowance; pension plan.

About The Team

At Mistral AI, we are a tight-knit, nimble team dedicated to bringing our cutting-edge AI technology to the world. Our mission is to make AI ubiquitous and open. Our product values are Cool, Precision, Human-Centric, Captivating and Ambitious.