About the RoleWe are looking for Systems Engineers / System Administrators to help design, operate, and scale the infrastructure behind Mistral's AI platforms.
This is a hands-on, hybrid role combining:
Systems administration (operating and troubleshooting large-scale Linux environments)
Systems engineering (automation, scalability, and performance improvements)
You'll work closely with infrastructure, HPC, and research teams to ensure our clusters and platforms run reliably at scale.
What You'll Work OnCore Systems Operations- Operate and maintain large-scale Linux environments (bare metal, clusters, cloud)
- Monitor system health, troubleshoot incidents, and ensure high availability
- Support production and research workloads across multiple environments
Scaling Infrastructure- Help scale clusters toward hundreds to thousands of nodes
- Work on systems handling petabyte-scale storage
- Improve performance, reliability, and resource utilisation
Automation & Engineering- Automate operational tasks using tools like Python, Bash, Ansible, or Terraform
- Improve deployment, provisioning, and system lifecycle management
- Contribute to system design and architecture decisions
Cross-Functional Collaboration- Work closely with:
- HPC / infrastructure teams
- Platform / DevOps engineers
- Research teams
- Act as a bridge between users and infrastructure
What We're Looking ForMust-have- Strong Linux systems administration experience (core requirement)
- Experience working in large-scale environments:
- HPC clusters or cloud infrastructure
- Experience with Job schedulers (e.g. Slurm)
- Solid troubleshooting skills across systems, hardware, and networks
Nice-to-have (any of these)We are not expecting everything - strong depth in one area is valuable.
- Containers / orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes)
- Storage systems (e.g. Ceph, Lustre, NFS)
- Networking fundamentals (Ethernet; InfiniBand is a plus)
- Infrastructure as Code / automation tooling
- GPU or AI/ML experience
Profile We Value- Pragmatic problem solver who can operate in fast-scaling environments
- Comfortable working across multiple domains ("Swiss army knife" mindset)
- Able to go deep in one area while learning others
- Low-ego, collaborative, and hands-on
