AI Scientist - Robotics

About Mistral

At Mistral we are on a mission to democratize AI, producing frontier intelligence for everyone, developed in the open, and built by engineers all over the world.

We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation, with teams distributed between Europe, the USA and Asia. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.

At Mistral, we develop models for the enterprise and for consumers, focusing on delivering systems which can really change the way in which businesses operate and which can integrate into our daily lives. All while releasing frontier models open-source, for everyone to try and benefit.

Mistral is hiring experts in the training of large language models and distributed systems. Join us to be part of a pioneering company shaping the future of AI.

What will you do

• Research and develop novel AI methods for general-purpose mobile manipulation robots
• Build tooling and infrastructure to allow training, evaluation and analysis of AI models at scale
• Work cross-functionally with other scientists, engineers and product teams to deploy AI systems on real robot platforms

About you

• You have hands-on experience either building and deploying AI systems on physical robots or developing large vision-language models
• You are a highly proficient software engineer in at least one programming language (preferably Python)
• You have hands-on experience with AI frameworks (preferably PyTorch)
• You have high engineering competence. This means being able to design complex software and make it usable in production
• You are a self-starter, autonomous and a team player

Now, it would be ideal if

• You have experience in one or more of the following: navigation, manipulation, simulators, 3D, embodied reasoning or vision-language-action models
• You can navigate the full MLOps stack, for instance, fine-tuning, evaluation and deployment
• You have a strong publication record in a relevant scientific domain

Benefits in France

💰 Competitive cash salary and equity

🥕 Food : Daily lunch vouchers

🥎 Sport : Monthly contribution to a Gympass subscription

🚴 Transportation : Monthly contribution to a mobility pass

🧑‍⚕️ Health : Full health insurance for you and your family

🍼 Parental : Generous parental leave policy

🌎 Visa sponsorship

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