AI Scientist: Agentic CAD & LLM Design Engineer

Mistral; Palo Alto (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Parental leave

Relocation support

Wellness programmes

Job summary

Mistral is seeking an AI Scientist with deep ML expertise and hands-on CAD experience to expand agentic tools for CAD design. You will build pretraining data, verifiers, and CAD evaluation benchmarks to enable reliable CAD tasks with LLMs and tools through APIs and computer use.

You will shape the CAD stream, contribute to multi-step planning, and collaborate with CAE, EDA, and solutions teams to target high-value CAD workflows and industrial applications.

Qualifications

• Experience with LLM training pipelines (SFT, RL, fine-tuning).
• Hands-on CAD workflows in SolidWorks, CATIA, Siemens NX, FreeCAD or CADQuery.
• Fluent English with strong communication skills.
• Proficient Python coding in Linux/HPC environments.

Responsibilities

• Design pretraining, SFT, and RL data for CAD tasks: text-to-CAD and image-to-CAD generation from drawings, geometric analysis, QA of CAD parts, and design modification.
• Define verifiers and evaluation criteria for CAD tasks.
• Scale data pipelines that produce agentic CAD training traces.
• Design and improve agent architectures and harnesses for CAD tool use and multi-step planning.
• Build and maintain CAD evaluation benchmarks and diagnostic tooling.
• Collaborate with CAD domain experts to identify high-value workflows.
• Contribute to broader pre- and post-training research within the science org.

Skills

LLM development

Python

CAD experience

Linux HPC

English communication

Tools

SolidWorks

CATIA

Siemens NX

FreeCAD

CADQuery

OpenCASCADE

build123d

Job description

Mistral is seeking an AI Scientist with deep ML expertise and hands-on CAD experience to expand agentic tools for CAD design. You will build pretraining data, verifiers, and CAD evaluation benchmarks to enable reliable CAD tasks with LLMs and tools through APIs and computer use.

You will shape the CAD stream, contribute to multi-step planning, and collaborate with CAE, EDA, and solutions teams to target high-value CAD workflows and industrial applications.