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# Applied AI, Forward Deployed Engineer - Cybersecurity (Canada) at Mistral

- **Company:** [Mistral](https://feeny.ai/companies/mistral)
- **Location:** Montréal, Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-07-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mistral.ai/fb6dce2f-5198-4327-b26c-93d407a781d0

## Job description

## 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.

## Role Summary

We are seeking an Applied AI, Forward Deployed Engineer to build customer use cases on top of the Mistral stack. You will turn "we have agents" into "we shipped something a client uses." This role is about composing cybersecurity-related agentic workflows, configuring harnesses for real-world scenarios, and delivering value directly to clients.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Mistral, you may also work on use cases outside cybersecurity, bringing the same context engineering, orchestration, and eval work to enterprise workflows in finance, manufacturing, defense, or the public sector.

## What You Will Do

- Client-Facing Agentic Solutions
- You'll individually help deploy into production use cases with considerable business impact across various industries, with cybersecurity client assignments as a priority
- You'll work on state-of-the-art GenAI applications, driving a crucial technological transformation together with our customers
- Tackle iconic use cases that no existing solution on the market can address - from custom configuration of cybersecurity harnesses for cloud defense, to optimizing agentic vulnerability scanning solutions, to customizing agentic red-teaming solutions or penetration testing scenarios
- You'll work directly on client use cases, translating security requirements into agentic solutions
- You'll be involved in pre-sales calls to understand potential clients' needs, challenges, and aspirations, providing technical guidance on our products and explaining Mistral technologies to various stakeholders
- You'll collaborate with our product and science teams to continuously improve our product and model capabilities based on customer feedback

## How We Work in Applied AI

- We care about people and outputs
- What matters is what you ship, not the time you spend on it
- Bureaucracy is where urgency goes to vanish. You talk to whoever you need to talk to. The best idea wins, whether it comes from a principal engineer or someone in their first week
- Always ask why. The best solutions come from deep understanding, not from copying what worked before
- We say what we mean. Feedback is direct, timely, and given because we care
- No politics. Low ego, high standards
- We embrace an unstructured environment and find joy in it

## About You

- You are fluent in English
- You have 2+ years as a technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer) on AI-based products
- You have proven experience in AI or machine learning product implementation with APIs, back-end, and front-end interfaces
- You have experience tackling advanced RAG, building agentic use cases, or fine-tuning LLMs
- You have a deep understanding of the concepts and algorithms underlying machine learning and LLMs
- You have strong technical coding skills in Python
- You have strong communication skills, with an ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms to both technical and non-technical audiences

Ideally, you have:

- Contributed to open-source projects, in particular in the space of LLMs
- Experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Technical Product Manager
- Hands-on experience building agents, LLM orchestration, context engineering, evals, and RAG systems
- A bias toward action and delivery - you ship fast
- The ability to operate independently with a customer-led mindset
- The ability to reuse internal building blocks and components effectively
- Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail
- A collaborative attitude
- Pentesting knowledge
- Experience developing a cybersecurity product
- Experience building agentic harnesses or multi-agent systems end-to-end
- A strong background in evals and benchmarking of agent systems
- Experience with security tooling or workflows
- Prior work on production AI systems in regulated or high-stakes environments

## 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](https://app.notion.com/p/mistralai/Benefits-at-Mistral-36e6ba59a7fe836b93dd01737fcc27ef?source=copy_link).

Privacy Policy Your privacy matters to us. You can learn more about how we handle your personal data in our [Applicant Privacy Policy](https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/applicant-privacy-policy).

## About Mistral

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Mistral is a French AI company building open, frontier-grade large language models, developer platforms, and applied AI solutions for enterprises and governments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France (15 rue des Halles)
- **Founded**: April 2023
- **Founders**: Arthur Mensch (CEO), Guillaume Lample (Chief Science Officer), Timothée Lacroix (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, Enterprise AI Software
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, Government, and Developers (B2D)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To make frontier AI open to all, and together solve the world's hardest problems."

## Products & Services
- **Mistral Large**: Frontier-grade large language model for complex reasoning and enterprise tasks.
- **Mistral Small 3**: Efficient, lightweight model for cost-sensitive deployments.
- **Mistral Code / Vibe**: AI agent for long-horizon, autonomous software development and task completion.
- **Le Chat**: Consumer-facing AI assistant and chatbot.
- **Mistral OCR 4**: State-of-the-art document intelligence model for extracting and understanding text from images and PDFs.
- **Mistral Forge**: Custom model development service for training, aligning, and evaluating proprietary AI models on private data.
- **Mistral Studio**: Platform for building, testing, and running AI agents and applications with full control.
- **Mistral Compute**: Infrastructure and orchestration platform for frontier-scale training and inference (edge to cloud).
- **Mistral Search Toolkit**: Tools for integrating search and retrieval into AI applications.
- **Voxtral**: Voice AI model for speech-based interactions.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $4.016 billion (latest reported valuation, per CB Insights; date not specified but likely post-Series C)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised across Seed, Series A, Series B, and Series C rounds (specific amounts not disclosed in search results).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly named in search results, but the company partners with organizations in finance, manufacturing, defense, energy, and the public sector.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Rapid scaling: 900+ employees across 30+ nationalities as of mid-2026.
  - 50% of leadership roles held by women.
  - Key product launches on a near-monthly cadence (e.g., Mistral OCR, Forge, Vibe, Compute, Search Toolkit, Voxtral).
  - Strong presence in high-stakes, regulated industries (defense, energy, public sector).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source DNA**: Commitment to openness, transparency, and cost efficiency differentiates Mistral from closed, Big Tech AI labs.
- **Full-stack ownership**: Controls the entire stack from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute infrastructure, enabling deep customization and reliability.
- **European leadership**: Positioned as a sovereign, European AI champion, appealing to governments and enterprises seeking data control and regulatory compliance.
- **Speed and rigor**: Culture of rapid experimentation, iteration, and data-driven decision-making.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise and government partnerships**: Co-creating tailored AI systems for mission-critical use cases in finance, manufacturing, defense, energy, and public sector.
- **Open platform ecosystem**: Expanding Mistral Studio and Forge to enable customers to build custom models and agents on their own data.
- **Infrastructure as a product**: Commercializing Mistral Compute to become a platform for others to train and run AI workloads.
- **Continuous model innovation**: Releasing new frontier models and capabilities (OCR, voice, code agents) at a rapid pace.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Flat structure, high ownership, low ego, and a "builders, not order takers" mentality. The company values audacity, speed, rigor, and customer centricity.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Based in Paris (15 rue des Halles); relocation support and visa sponsorship offered. Specific remote/hybrid policy not detailed, but global team suggests flexibility.
- **Notable perks and benefits** (from careers page):
  - 20 weeks paid parental leave for all birthing parents.
  - 100% employer-sponsored medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
  - 6% 401k match (US) / 5% pension contribution (UK).
  - Childcare support (reserved daycare seats or financial assistance).
  - Meal allowances and transportation support.
  - Fitness and wellness subsidies.
  - Relocation and settling-in services.
  - Financial and career planning support.
- **Team composition**: 900+ employees from 30+ nationalities; 50% female leaders.
- **Interview process**: For science, product, and engineering roles: intro conversation → 2-5 technical exercises → 1-3 interviews (hiring manager + teammates) → values conversation → reference checks.

## Sources
1. [Mistral AI - About Page](https://mistral.ai/about/)
2. [Mistral AI - Careers Page](https://mistral.ai/careers/)
3. [Mistral AI - Homepage](https://mistral.ai/)
4. [CB Insights - Mistral AI Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/mistral-ai)
5. [Mistral AI - LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mistralai)

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