Research Software Engineer — AI Tooling & Distributed Systems

Lindus Health; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Mistral is hiring a Research Engineer to design and harden the codebase, tools and distributed services that enable researchers to train and ship frontier-scale models. You won’t need prior ML experience, just clean, scalable code.

You will join a Research Software Engineering team to build and maintain dev-tools, evaluation pipelines, training framework, cluster tooling and CI/CD. Located in Paris / Warsaw / Zurich / London (hybrid) or remote EU with a hub visit monthly.

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 / K8s, SLURM, or similar).
• Comfortable profiling performance, optimising I/O, and automating workflows.
• Self-starter, low-ego, collaborative, high-energy.

Responsibilities

• Accelerate researchers by owning the complex parts of large-scale pipelines and delivering robust 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.
• Design and optimise distributed services (Kubernetes / SLURM, thousands-of-GPU jobs).
• Prototype utilities (CLI, dashboards) and carry them through to stable, shared libraries.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Systems language

Kubernetes / SLURM

CI/CD

Profiling & performance

Education

Master's in Computer Science

Job description

Mistral is hiring a Research Engineer to design and harden the codebase, tools and distributed services that enable researchers to train and ship frontier-scale models. You won’t need prior ML experience, just clean, scalable code.

You will join a Research Software Engineering team to build and maintain dev-tools, evaluation pipelines, training framework, cluster tooling and CI/CD. Located in Paris / Warsaw / Zurich / London (hybrid) or remote EU with a hub visit monthly.