Applied AI, Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer

MISTRAL AI PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI technology firm in Singapore is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to deploy AI products, tackle complex technical challenges, and collaborate closely with clients and multi-disciplinary teams. The ideal candidate possesses a PhD or Master's in AI/Data Science and has over 7 years of experience in AI-based products, including expertise in fine-tuning LLMs. This role offers competitive compensation, equity, and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Competitive cash salary

Health insurance

Gym membership allowance

Monthly meal allowance

Transportation reimbursement

Qualifications

• Self-made candidates are welcome in addition to degrees.
• Have experience in advanced RAG or agentic use cases.
• Experience contributing to open-source LLM projects is ideal.

Responsibilities

• Deploy AI products in production with significant business impact.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers on complex projects.
• Provide technical guidance during pre-sales interactions.
• Continuously improve product and model capabilities based on feedback.

Skills

Fluent in English

AI/data science knowledge

7-10+ years of AI product experience

Fine-tuning LLMs

Cloud infrastructure

Strong communication skills

Education

PhD or Master's in AI/Data Science

Job description

About The Job

Mistral AI is seeking a Applied AI Engineer to facilitate the adoption of its products among customers and collaborate with them to address complex technical challenges.

The Applied AI Engineer is an integral part of our Applied AI Engineering team, which is dedicated to driving the successful deployment of Mistral AI products and building complex enterprises use‑cases. They work hand‑in‑hand with customers from the pre‑sale stage to post‑implementation, ensuring our solutions meet and exceed client expectations.

In this role, you’ll manage customer relations involving multiple stakeholders (CEO/CTO, data scientists, and software engineers) and function as a key resource in externalizing our research in production settings.

What you will do

• You’ll individually help deploy into 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, driving with our customers a crucial technological transformation.
• You’ll work in collaboration with our researchers, other AI engineers, product engineers on our most complex customer projects involving complex fine‑tuning, state‑of‑the‑art LLM applications, and contributing to our open‑source codebases for tasks such as inference and fine‑tuning.
• You’ll be involved in pre‑sales calls to understand potential clients' needs, challenges, and aspirations. You will provide technical guidance on our products and explain Mistral technologies to various stakeholders.
• Your collaboration with our product and science team to improve continuously our product and model capabilities based on customers’ feedback.

About you

• You are fluent in English.
• You hold a PhD / master in AI / data science or you’re self‑made.
• You have 7-10+ years as a technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer) on AI‑based products.
• You have experience in fine‑tuning LLMs, tackling advanced RAG or agentic use cases.
• You have deep understanding of concepts and algorithms underlying machine learning and LLMs.
• You have a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure and how to deploy AI‑based products.
• You have deployed or built products with large‑scale user base.
• You hold strong communication skills with an ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms to technical and non‑technical audiences.

Ideally you have

• Contributed to open‑source projects in the space of LLM.
• Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Staff Engineer Machine Learning Engineer, Staff Data Scientist.

Benefits

• Competitive cash salary and equity.
• Health insurance.
• Sport: $90 for gym membership allowance.
• Food: $200 monthly allowance for meals (solution might evolve as we grow bigger).
• Transportation: $120/month for public transport or parking charges reimbursed.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.