Senior Data Center Hardware Engineer
Paris-based AI company building frontier models, AI applications, developer tools, and compute infrastructure for enterprise and public-sector deployments.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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.
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About the Role
You will lead complex production hardware interventions, deploy and validate GPU-dense racks, and diagnose failures across compute, storage, interconnect, power, and cooling. You will manage vendor repairs and escalations, mentor engineers, improve operational documentation and automation, and maintain safety and reliability practices across data-center sites.
Requirements
- 6+ years of data-center, server-hardware, or L2/L3 hardware-support experience
- Production hardware experience
- CPU, memory, PCIe, accelerator, NIC, PSU, drive, network, power, and cooling expertise
- BMC/IPMI diagnostics
- Linux logs and CLI
- Root-cause analysis
- Rack deployment experience
- Vendor management
- ESD, LOTO, and PPE practices
- Mentoring
- Willingness to travel between Paris-region sites
Responsibilities
- Lead complex production hardware interventions and rack deployments
- Manage vendor repairs, replacements, and escalations
- Diagnose failures across compute, storage, interconnect, power, and cooling
- Deploy and validate new racks and platforms
- Mentor engineers and create SOPs, checklists, and training materials
- Build Python or Bash automation for operations
- Coordinate with facilities teams on power, cooling, PDU, and monitoring interfaces
- Enforce ESD, LOTO, PPE, and change-control practices
- Plan spares strategy and proactively address fleet failure trends
- Visit other Paris-region sites as needed
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- Parental leave
- Retirement plans
- Relocation support
- Wellness programs
- Meal allowances
- Transportation allowances