Applied AI, Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer
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Applied AI, Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer
Location
Montréal
Experience
Mid
Posted
Jul 14, 2026
Apply by
August 13, 2026
Applicants
0
Early applicantEasy applyFull-timeWork from Office
Job Description
## About Mistral
Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems—across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector—co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms.
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. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.
The Role
Mistral AI is seeking a Applied AI Engineer to facilitate the adoption of its products among customers and collaborate with them to address complex technical challenges.
The Applied AI Engineer will be an integral part of our Applied AI Engineering team, which is dedicated to driving the successful deployment of Mistral AI products. They will work hand-in-hand with customers from the pre-sale stage to post-implementation, ensuring our solutions meet and exceed client expectations.
In this role, you’ll manage daily customer relations involving multiple stakeholders (CEO/CTO, data scientists, and software engineers) and function as a key resource in externalising our research in production settings.
What You Will Do
• You’ll be responsible for onboarding customers on our products and APIs, providing guidance on prompting, evaluation, and fine-tuning, and ensuring the best production integration with back-end and front-end interfaces.
• You’ll work on state-of-the-art GenAI applications from consumer products to industrial use cases, driving with our customers a crucial technological transformation.
• You’ll individually help deploy into production use cases with a considerable business impact across various industries.
• You’ll work in collaboration with our researchers, other AI engineers, product engineers on our most complex customer projects involving complex fine-tuning, state-of-the-art LLM applications, and contributing to our open source codebases for tasks such as inference and fine-tuning.
• You’ll be involved in pre-sales calls to understand potential clients' needs, challenges, and aspirations. You will provide technical guidance on our products and explain Mistral technologies to various stakeholders.
• Your collaboration with our product and science team to improve continuously our product and model capabilities based on customers’ feedback
What We Are Looking For
• You are fluent in English and French.
• You hold a PhD / master in AI / data science.
• You have 2+ years as a technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer) on AI-based products
• You have experience in Fine Tuning LLMs, tackling advanced RAG or agentic use cases
• You have deep understanding of concepts and algorithms underlying machine learning and LLMs
• You're experienced with building and deploying LLMs or NLP applications
• You have proven experience in AI or machine learning product implementation with APIs, back-end and front-end interfaces.
• You have strong technical coding skills in Python
• You have experience with deep learning with Pytorch
• You have experience with agents framework such as Langchain, vector DBs
• You hold strong communication skills with an ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms with technical and non-technical audiences
Ideally you have:
• Contributed to open-source projects in particular in the space of LLMs
• Experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect or Technical Product Manager
## What We Offer
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance. Benefits vary by country and may include healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, meal and transportation allowances, and other location-specific perks.
For the most up-to-date details on benefits available in your location, please refer to our [Benefits page](https://app.notion.com/p/mistralai/Benefits-at-Mistral-36e6ba59a7fe836b93dd01737fcc27ef?source=copy_link).
## Privacy Policy
Your privacy matters to us. You can learn more about how we handle your personal data in our [Applicant Privacy Policy](https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/applicant-privacy-policy).
Key Responsibilities
- Onboard customers on products and APIs, providing guidance on prompting, evaluation, and fine-tuning.
- Ensure best production integration with back-end and front-end interfaces.
- Work on state-of-the-art GenAI applications for consumer and industrial use cases.
- Deploy solutions into production use cases with significant business impact.
- Collaborate with researchers and engineers on complex customer projects involving fine-tuning and LLM applications.
- Contribute to open-source codebases for inference and fine-tuning tasks.
- Participate in pre-sales calls to understand client needs and provide technical guidance.
- Collaborate with product and science teams to improve product and model capabilities based on customer feedback.
Requirements
- PhD or Master's degree in AI or Data Science
Skills Required
PythonPyTorchLLM Fine-tuningRAGAgentic Use CasesLangchainVector DatabasesMachine LearningNLPAPI DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentCommunicationTechnical ExplanationStakeholder ManagementCollaborationOpen-source contributionCustomer EngineeringSales EngineeringSolutions ArchitectureTechnical Product Management
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- Parental leave
- Retirement plans
- Relocation support
- Wellness programs
- Meal allowances
- Transportation allowances
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