Design and Reliability Engineering Manager
Paris-based AI company building frontier models, AI applications, developer tools, and compute infrastructure for enterprise and public-sector deployments.
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
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will set technical design criteria for data center capacity, power, cooling, resilience, and operational flexibility. You will review designs, commissioning evidence, tests, and changes to live sites. You will investigate electrical, mechanical, and controls incidents, develop corrective actions, and turn field lessons into improved standards, specifications, and reliability programs.
Requirements
- At least 8 years in mission-critical data center design, engineering, commissioning, or technical reliability
- Degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, or equivalent professional experience
- Deep knowledge in one engineering discipline and strong working knowledge of the other
- Expertise in critical power and cooling architecture, redundancy, failure-mode analysis, and operational risk management
- Experience reviewing engineering drawings, calculations, commissioning evidence, and root-cause analyses
- Ability to influence colocation providers and cross-functional stakeholders
- Excellent English communication
- Willingness to travel
Responsibilities
- Own and improve technical design criteria and colocation requirements
- Translate GPU platform requirements into facility load, power, cooling, and monitoring requirements
- Review electrical, mechanical, and controls architectures
- Lead reviews of engineering drawings, calculations, capacity models, and failure-mode studies
- Participate in site selection, technical due diligence, RFPs, and design milestones
- Define design-review and exception processes
- Define commissioning tests, acceptance criteria, and evidence requirements
- Validate infrastructure against contracted AI load requirements
- Review test scripts and results for electrical and cooling fault scenarios
- Ensure complete operational handover documentation
- Support live-site changes and capacity upgrades
- Lead technical root-cause investigations and reliability improvement programs
- Identify fleet-wide patterns and incorporate lessons into reference designs
- Present design trade-offs and reliability risks to stakeholders
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- Parental leave
- Retirement plans
- Relocation support
- Wellness programs
- Meal allowances
- Transportation allowances