Senior AI Software Engineer - Defense Data & Systems

Mistral; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Parental leave

Relocation support

Wellness programs

Meal allowances

Transportation allowances

Job summary

Mistral is seeking an experienced software engineer for its Defense team to build data-centric software for defense institutions and industry. You will shape architecture, implement production code and own substantial components from design through deployment.

The role targets senior or staff engineers who want broad ownership, autonomy, and to stay deeply involved in implementation while working in a small, high-skill team.

Qualifications

• Strong practical familiarity with AI coding tools and agentic engineering workflows.
• Track record of building and operating production software with strong ownership of complex systems.
• Experience in data engineering or transactional, analytical or distributed systems.
• Experience with access control, permissions and data governance.
• Broad software engineering skills across architecture, implementation and production debugging.
• Proficiency in Python; solid SQL skills; able to work in Python and TypeScript environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build services for data ingestion, transformation, storage, querying and workflows.
• Develop shared data models, APIs and SDKs for a consistent foundation.
• Define and enforce access control with audit trails across data and actions.
• Solve issues around data consistency, schema evolution, concurrency and failure recovery.
• Translate engineer needs into reusable software capabilities with practical evolution.
• Own end-to-end delivery including testing, observability, and maintainability.
• Leverage AI coding tools to accelerate implementation, testing and debugging.

Skills

AI coding tools

Agentic engineering

Data engineering

Access control

Python

SQL

TypeScript

Security & maintainability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Foundry

Job description

Mistral is seeking an experienced software engineer for its Defense team to build data-centric software for defense institutions and industry. You will shape architecture, implement production code and own substantial components from design through deployment.

The role targets senior or staff engineers who want broad ownership, autonomy, and to stay deeply involved in implementation while working in a small, high-skill team.