Applied Scientist - Tabular Data, EMEA
Mistral AIVisit Mistral AI website
Paris-based AI company building frontier models, AI applications, developer tools, and compute infrastructure for enterprise and public-sector deployments.
Paris, France
About Mistral AI
Mistral AI develops open-weight and commercial language models and provides a full-stack AI platform spanning agents, application development, custom-model training, APIs, and AI cloud infrastructure.
Skills
About the Role
You will design, train, and deploy state-of-the-art models that understand, query, and reason over structured data. You will run pre-training and post-training on large GPU clusters, curate datasets of tables, spreadsheets and databases, build evaluators and benchmarks, develop tooling, and work with cross-functional and client teams.
Requirements
- Fluent in English with excellent communication skills
- Expert with PyTorch or JAX
- Experience training or fine-tuning large language models or tabular foundation models (e.g. TabPFN)
- Strong background in machine learning on tabular data, including classical baselines, SQL, pandas
- Comfortable contributing to a big codebase independently
- Writes clean, high-performance, fault-tolerant Python code
- Track record of success through personal projects, professional projects or academia
Responsibilities
- Run pre-training, post-training and deploy state of the art models on clusters with thousands of GPUs
- Generate and curate datasets of tables, spreadsheets and databases
- Build evaluators and benchmarks for table understanding, text-to-SQL, and prediction on tabular data
- Develop tools and frameworks for data generation, model training, evaluation and deployment
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to tackle complex use cases
- Manage research projects and communications with client research teams
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- Parental leave
- Retirement plans
- Relocation support
- Wellness programs
- Meal and transportation allowances
