Applied AI Software Engineer - Defense
Mistral AI · Paris
CHECKED 8H AGO
Frontier labonsitesenior, staff
At a glance
Highlights
- Build full-stack AI software for defense institutions and industry partners.
- Design data ingestion, storage and querying services with audit trails.
- Own substantial components end-to-end from design through deployment.
What they offer
- healthcare coverage
- parental leave
- retirement plans
- relocation support
- wellness programs
- meal and transportation allowances
Ideal candidate
Senior or staff-level product engineer who thrives on broad ownership and ambiguous problems, motivated to build mission-critical software for defense. Collaborative, low-ego builder who stays deeply hands-on while leading through code and design.
Requirements
- Strong track record building and operating production software with substantial ownership of complex systems
- Experience in data engineering or transactional, analytical or distributed systems
- Experience building products with access control, permissions and data governance at the core
- Strong proficiency in Python or another language, solid SQL, able to ramp quickly in Python and TypeScript
- Practical familiarity with AI coding tools and agentic engineering workflows
- High autonomy with sound judgment turning ambiguous problems into concrete plans
- Collaborative technical leadership through code, design discussions, reviews and mentoring
Lab profile
About Mistral AI
Provides full-stack AI solutions from frontier models to tools, applications, and compute.
What they build
- Frontier AI models
- Developer tools
- AI applications
Known for
- Full-stack AI development
- Enterprise co-creation and deployment
- Customizable systems that run on customer terms
- Focus on finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare and public sector