Applied AI, Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer - Palo Alto

About this role

Mistral AI seeks an Applied AI Engineer to drive customer adoption of its AI products and solutions. You'll work directly with enterprise clients across industries to deploy and customize Mistral's models and tools, bridging research capabilities with real-world production implementations.

What you'll do

• Onboard customers on Mistral products and APIs, providing guidance on prompting, fine-tuning, and evaluation
• Deploy production AI use cases with significant business impact across finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and public sector
• Collaborate with internal researchers and engineers on complex customer projects involving advanced LLM applications and fine-tuning
• Conduct pre-sales technical consultations to understand customer needs and explain Mistral technologies to diverse stakeholders
• Manage multi-stakeholder customer relationships from pre-sale through post-implementation
• Provide feedback to product and science teams to inform product improvements based on customer insights

What they're looking for

• LLM fine-tuning and advanced RAG implementations
• Machine learning and deep learning fundamentals
• LLM and NLP application development and deployment
• API integration with back-end and front-end systems
• Technical communication with non-technical and technical stakeholders
• Python and software engineering practices
• Agentic system design
• Fluent English