Research Software Engineer — Remote AI Tooling & Pipelines

Mistral AI; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Relocation support

Wellness programs

Meal and transportation allowances

Job summary

Mistral AI is hiring a Research Engineer to design and harden the software stack that underpins frontier-scale AI models. You’ll build, maintain and optimize shared dev-tools, data pipelines, and training frameworks for an expert research team.

Based in Europe with a London hub and EU/UK remote options, this hybrid role emphasizes clean code, robust tooling, and scalable systems performance for large GPU workloads.

Qualifications

• Master’s in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years building and operating large-scale or distributed systems.
• Strong software-design instincts: modular code, tests, CI/CD, observability.
• Fluency in Python plus one systems language (C++, Rust, Go or Java).
• Hands-on with container orchestration and schedulers (Kubernetes / SLURM, or similar).
• Comfortable profiling performance, optimising I/O, and automating workflows.
• Self-starter, low-ego, collaborative, high-energy.

Responsibilities

• Design and harden the codebase, dev-tools and distributed services for model training and shipping.
• Own complex parts of large-scale pipelines and internal tooling.
• Interface research with product: expose clean APIs, automate model pushes, surface live metrics.
• Write efficient, well-tested Python and systems code; enforce code review, CI, and observability.
• Prototype utilities (CLI, dashboards) and carry them through to stable, shared libraries.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Systems languages

Education

Master's in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Job description

Mistral AI is hiring a Research Engineer to design and harden the software stack that underpins frontier-scale AI models. You’ll build, maintain and optimize shared dev-tools, data pipelines, and training frameworks for an expert research team.

Based in Europe with a London hub and EU/UK remote options, this hybrid role emphasizes clean code, robust tooling, and scalable systems performance for large GPU workloads.