Applied AI, Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer - Munich

About The Job   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 team is Mistral's customer-facing technical organization. We work directly with enterprise clients from pre-sales through implementation to deploy cutting-edge AI solutions that deliver measurable business impact.   Our team combines deep ML expertise with strong customer engagement skills, operating like startup CTOs who own end-to-end project execution. By joining the team you'll will bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI research and real-world enterprise applications, ensuring our solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with both customer needs and Mistral's technological vision.   What you will do   - You’ll individually help deploy into production use cases with a considerable business impact across various industries. - 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 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 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   How We Work in Applied AI   - We care about people and outputs. - What matters is what you ship, not the time you spend on it - Bureaucracy is where urgency goes to vanish. You talk to whoever you need to talk to. The best idea wins, whether it comes from a principal engineer or someone in their first week. - Always ask why. The best solutions come from deep understanding, not from copying what worked before - We say what we mean. Feedback is direct, timely, and given because we care. - No politics. Low ego, high standards. - We embrace an unstructured environment and find joy in it.   About you   - You are fluent in English - You have 2+ years as a technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer) on AI-based products - You have proven experience in AI or machine learning product implementation with APIs, back-end and front-end interfaces. - 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 have strong technical coding skills in Python - 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 - You have experience with deep learning with Pytorch