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About Mistral

Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector, co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms.

We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.

You built something from nothing. Do it again, within the best frontier AI company in Europe.

This is not a job description.

It’s an open invitation for people who have founded, co-founded, or led a company and want to deploy Europe’s most advanced AI models inside the enterprises that need them most.

We’re not asking for a perfect resume. We’re asking whether you’ve built something real, with real users, real problems, and real constraints.

What you will do

You join Mistral’s Solutions team. Your mission: take our models and make them indispensable for our enterprise clients.

In practice:

• You own a portfolio of enterprise clients. You’re their primary point of contact working as a co-builder with them

• You identify the highest-impact use cases, structure the deployment, and unblock friction

• You bridge the gap between what our models can do and what the client needs to solve. Sometimes it’s a prompting problem. Sometimes it’s a CEO problem.

• You feed signal back to product and research. You are the eyes and ears on the ground.

Two tracks, one entry point

Depending on your background, you’ll be oriented toward one of two trajectories:

Deployment Strategist (usually ex‑CEO/COO or a BD/Sales founder):

• Focused on deployment strategy, the business case, C‑level adoption, and expanding accounts

• Delivers executive workshops, adoption roadmaps, and ROI proposals

Applied AI Engineer (usually an ex‑CTO, technical founder, or lead engineer)

• Focused on integration architecture, fine‑tuning, RAG/agents, and production deployment

• Delivers prototypes, deployment pipelines, client code, and open‑source contributions

About you

• You’ve founded or co-founded a company, no matter the size or sector or if it’s still running

• You’ve sold a product to customers, built a team, or raised money. You know what “skin in the game” means.

• You can talk to a CEO in the morning and debug a pipeline in the afternoon or at least know who to call to get it done.

• You’re comfortable with ambiguity. We won’t hand you a 50-page playbook. We’ll hand you a client and an objective.

• You have genuine curiosity about AI. You don’t need to have trained a model, but you need to understand what this technology is and why it changes everything.

 

What We Offer

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance. Benefits vary by country and may include healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, meal and transportation allowances, and other location-specific perks.

For the most up-to-date details on benefits available in your location, please refer to our Benefits page.

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