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# Datacenter Hardware Engineer, HPC at Mistral

- **Company:** [Mistral](https://feeny.ai/companies/mistral)
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-07-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mistral.ai/a022798e-e20b-4752-b712-61ba05af6b37

## 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

Our compute footprint is growing fast to support our science and engineering teams. We’re hiring a Datacenter HW Engineer to maintain, troubleshoot, and scale our GPU/CPU clusters safely and reliably. You’ll execute hands-on hardware work in our Paris-area datacenter and partner with hardware owners, DC operations, and vendors to keep one of France’s largest GPU clusters healthy.

Location: Bruyères-le-Châtel — on-site, field role

Impact

- Compute is a key lever for Mistral’s success and our largest spend item.
- Direct impact on scale: your work keeps one of France’s largest AI clusters healthy as we grow to unprecedented scale.
- Enable breakthrough AI: you unlock our science & engineering teams to deliver groundbreaking AI solutions.

## What you will do

- Diagnose & operate core server/cluster components - Investigate and handle compute/storage hardware issues (CPU, memory, drives, NICs, GPUs, PSUs) and interconnect problems (switches, cables, transceivers; Ethernet/InfiniBand). Perform safe interventions (power-off/lockout, ESD) to replace, re-seat, or recable components and restore service.
- Safety & procedures - Apply lockout/tagout (LOTO) and ESD discipline; follow pre/post-work checklists; maintain tidy, safe work areas.
- First-line diagnostics - Triage using LEDs, POST, beep codes and basic tests; capture evidence (photos, serials, results); open/update/close tickets with clear notes.
- Preventive maintenance - Provide feedback and ideas to improve proactive activities, monitoring, and targeted follow-ups on recurring or specific anomalies; help turn ad-hoc checks into SOPs, alerts, and dashboards.
- Parts & logistics - Receive and track parts, keep labeled inventory accurate, manage simple RMAs, and coordinate with vendors.
- Collaboration & escalation - Partner with senior hardware/firmware owners on complex or multi-node issues; communicate status and next steps crisply.
- Documentation & quality - Keep SOPs/checklists current; ensure zero undocumented changes and consistent, audit-ready records.

## About you

- Hands-on mindset in datacenters/server hardware: you can install/re-seat/swap GPU/PCIe cards, NICs, PSUs, drives, and work cleanly in racks (rails, cabling, labeling). We also welcome candidates with strong Linux fundamentals (boot/check, logs) and scripting (Python/Bash) who are eager to learn hardware; you’ll be trained and mentored by a senior hardware engineer.
- Disciplined and meticulous: follows checklists, ESD/LOTO; no rough handling; careful with all high-value server components.
- Practical electrical basics: power-off, PPE, short-circuit risk awareness.
- Comfortable in racks: cooling, network, storage, PDU, cable management; can lift/mount safely (within HSE limits).
- Clear communicator: short factual updates; reliable teammate; punctual and process-minded.
- Hardware-passionate, professionally grounded: strong curiosity and craft mindset.

## Nice to have

- HPC/AI/Cloud at scale experience (production environments), large-fleet/server install & maintenance in datacenters.
- Basic networking (Ethernet/InfiniBand) and basic Linux (boot/check; no coding needed).
- Coding/automation skills (Python/Bash): small tools/scripts to improve checklists, photo/serial capture, inventory sync, or simple monitoring/reporting.
- Experience with inventory/RMA tools and vendor coordination.
- Exposure to HPC/research/industrial 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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