Mistral AIPartner Solution Architect, South Korea
Seoul · Full-time
Why join Mistral AI?
The prize is every government, bank and hospital that wants frontier AI without handing its data to someone else's cloud, and Mistral AI, a Paris open-weight AI lab, is positioned to supply it. If sovereign AI becomes a procurement rule, the company could end up inside many public institutions. A $3.5B Series D backed by NVIDIA and Bpifrance, with $7.5B raised across nine rounds, puts real money behind 212 open roles.
JustBacked's take, based on Mistral AI's own site and its funding and hiring data.
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.
The role
The technical partner leader for Korea, shaping and deploying Mistral’s ecosystem strategy with the Telco/NCP anchor set (Naver Cloud, SK Telecom, KT, NHN Cloud) and RSI partners Samsung SDS and LG CNS.
Bridges executive conversations with deep technical credibility, translating Mistral’s open-weight models and sovereign AI architecture into deployable solutions on Korean GPU and cloud infrastructure, including Samsung SDS and LG CNS platforms.
Hands-on in designing reference architectures, guiding GPU sizing and sovereign deployment strategy, and shaping Korea partner GTM alongside the Korea Partner Sales Lead.
What success looks like
First 12 months
Peer-level relationships built with CTOs and Chief Architects across three to four Korean partners.
Two to three joint technical architectures designed and deployed on partner infrastructure.
Recognised as the technical voice of Mistral in Korean partner field engagements and executive briefings.
Key Understanding
Mistral architecture embedded in Korean partner reference designs across Naver Cloud, Samsung SDS and LG CNS.
Partner-deployed Mistral workloads generating measurable influenced revenue.
A scalable Korean partner enablement and certification framework, with trained engineers at Samsung SDS and LG CNS.
Key responsibilities
Lead technical design, deployment and enablement of Mistral partner solutions in Korea.
Serve as trusted technical advisor to partner CTOs, Chief Architects and engineering leaders.
Design reference architectures and deployment patterns for partner-led implementations on Korean infrastructure.
Support partner-led opportunities through technical discovery, architecture design and POC execution.
Drive lighthouse deployments that become referenceable Korean case studies.
Work with Kakao Bank, Samsung and LG affiliates to deploy AI Studio and build use cases to local requirements.
Must have
10–15 years in partner-facing technical sales or solution architecture, ideally within the Korean cloud, telco or RSI ecosystem.
Proven ability to engage CTOs and Chief Architects at Korean Telco/NCP or RSI organisations.
Deep GenAI / LLM expertise: RAG, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, model evaluation, deployment patterns.
Strong grounding in AI/ML infrastructure, GPU clusters and sovereign or on-premise deployment.
Native or business-fluent Korean. This is a hard requirement for technical conversations with Korean architects.
Nice to have
Experience with HyperCLOVA X, EXAONE or other Korean LLM ecosystems.
Prior involvement in AI Lab, AI Factory or sovereign cloud deployments in Korea.
Familiarity with Korean data-localisation requirements and GPU sizing for large-scale inference.
Exposure to Korean FSI technical environments (Kakao Bank, Woori, Shinhan, KB).
Ideal backgrounds
Partner solution architects or partner technology strategists at Naver Cloud, SK Telecom, KT or a hyperscaler in Korea; alliance solution architects at Samsung SDS or LG CNS; cloud solution architects at AWS, Microsoft or Google Cloud Korea; heads of partner engineering.
Languages: Korean required (native or business-fluent). English required (business-fluent).
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.
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