Applied Scientist, Research Engineer – Multimodal
Mistral AI
Open SourcePythonPyTorch
Applied Scientist – Edge Devices, Quantization
Mistral AI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Paris • 🇫🇷 France
Visit company websiteJob Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Open SourcePythonPyTorch
About the role
- Run pre-training, post-training and deploy state of the art models on clusters with thousands of GPUs.
- Design and evaluate quantization, pruning, distillation, and sparsity methods for LLMs and multimodal models.
- Build deployment stacks, optimize kernels and memory layouts.
- Run large‑scale experiments to balance accuracy, latency, throughput, and power under tight memory constraints; profile and fix bandwidth/compute bottlenecks.
- Develop tooling for calibration data generation, mixed‑precision training, quant‑aware finetuning, structured/unstructured sparsity, and compilation passes.
- Manage research projects and communications with client research teams.
Requirements
- You are fluent in English, and have excellent communication skills.
- You’re not afraid of contributing to a big codebase and can find yourself around independently with little guidance.
- You’ve a deep understanding of quantization trade‑offs, hardware constraints, and compiler stacks
- You’re expert with PyTorch or JAX; strong C++/CUDA or low‑level performance skills a plus; production‑grade Python.
- You don’t need roadmaps: you just do. You don’t need a manager: you just ship.
- Low-ego, collaborative and eager to learn.
- You have a track record of success through personal projects, professional projects or in academia.
- It would be great if you hold a PhD / master in a relevant field (e.g., Mathematics, Physics, Machine Learning), but if you’re an exceptional candidate from a different background, you should apply.
- Have contributed to a large codebase used by many (open source or in the industry).
- Have a track record of publications in top academic journals or conferences.
- Contributions to open‑source inference/compilers stacks.
- Love improving existing code by fixing typing issues, adding tests and improving CI pipelines.
- Have experience optimizing inference on edge devices
Benefits
- 💰 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
- 💰 Competitive cash salary and equity
- 🚑 Insurance
- 🚴 Transportation: Reimburse office parking charges, or 90GBP/month for public transport
- 🥎 Sport: 90GBP/month reimbursement for gym membership
- 🥕 Meal voucher: £200 monthly allowance for its meals
- 💰 Pension plan: SmartPension (percentages are 5% Employee & 3% Employer)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
quantizationpruningdistillationsparsity methodsPyTorchJAXC++CUDAPythonmixed-precision training
Soft skills
communication skillscollaborativeeager to learnindependentlow-egoproblem-solvingproject managementself-motivatedadaptabilityinitiative
Certifications
PhDMaster's degree
