Sovereign AI Compute Engineer | Cloud & Kubernetes

Mistral; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Parental leave

Retirement plans

Relocation support

Wellness programs

Meal and transportation allowances

Job summary

Mistral is seeking an AI Compute Engineer to build and support the infrastructure behind sovereign AI. You’ll work at the intersection of frontier models, products, and compute to ensure large-scale Linux environments, cloud systems, and AI workloads run reliably.

Join a dynamic, collaborative team delivering modern, cloud-native solutions and helping customers leverage sovereign AI with confidence through scalable infrastructure and robust operations.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux system administration experience at scale.
• Proficiency with Slurm and/or Kubernetes to manage workloads.
• Familiarity with distributed storage, high performance networking, cloud security, or GPU/AI/ML workloads is a plus.
• Customer-focused mindset: diagnose, explain, and resolve issues for users of our AI solutions.
• Pragmatic, collaborative, hands‑on approach at the intersection of AI, infrastructure and customer success.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate the infrastructure powering Mistral’s sovereign AI, including Linux environments, cloud systems, and AI workloads.
• Troubleshoot incidents to ensure high availability, performance, and security for models, products, and compute platforms.
• Collaborate with research, product, and infrastructure teams to align systems with AI and customer needs.
• Provide technical support to customers and internal teams, diagnosing issues and guiding solutions.
• Explore and contribute to modern cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and GPU orchestration.

Skills

Linux administration

Kubernetes

Slurm

Distributed storage

High performance networking

GPU/AI/ML workloads

Customer-focused

Tools

Kubernetes

Slurm

Job description

Mistral is seeking an AI Compute Engineer to build and support the infrastructure behind sovereign AI. You’ll work at the intersection of frontier models, products, and compute to ensure large-scale Linux environments, cloud systems, and AI workloads run reliably.

Join a dynamic, collaborative team delivering modern, cloud-native solutions and helping customers leverage sovereign AI with confidence through scalable infrastructure and robust operations.