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title: 'Lead Applied Scientist, South Korea at Mistral'
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# Lead Applied Scientist, South Korea at Mistral

- **Company:** [Mistral](https://feeny.ai/companies/mistral)
- **Location:** Seoul, South Korea
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-07-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mistral.ai/826dd35b-03dc-4f5b-bfa2-2d3c91003154

## 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.

We are seeking a senior technical science and business leader to lead our rapidly expanding Applied Science team. You will drive innovative research and collaborate with clients on the most complex research projects, using real-world data to solve real problems. You will lead the development of SOTA models across different modalities such as text, image, and speech. By developing novel methods and research ideas you will apply these models across a diverse set of use cases and domains. Working cross-functionally with both external and internal science, engineering, and product teams you will deliver high-impact AI solutions that move the needle. Our team is made of world-class researchers, engineers, product builders, and ex-founders who love tackling the most complex real world problems in the industry. As the leader of Applied Science for Mistral, you will engage C-suite stakeholders from major enterprises, evangelizing and articulating the value proposition of Mistral in the local market. You will build a strong team, and a lasting team culture, to create a powerful talent flywheel.

## What you will do

- Lead the technical execution of high-stakes frontier science projects.
- Leading teams and strategic initiatives in the Applied Science team, defining team culture
- Be the point of contact internally and externally for technical Applied Science projects in the local region. This includes: leading the pre- and post-sales technical scoping, running events, engaging executive stakeholders, and ensuring projects align with the long-term vision of Applied Science at Mistral.
- Run pre-training, post-training and deploy state of the art models on clusters with thousands of GPUs.
- Work across a diverse set of complex real world problems such as robotics, engineering, finance, cybersecurity, physics and more.
- Generate and curate data for pre-training and post-training, working on evaluations and making sure the model's performance beats customer expectations and frontier benchmarks.
- Develop the necessary tools and frameworks to facilitate data generation, model training, evaluation and deployment.

## About you

- You are fluent in English and Korean, and have excellent communication skills. You are at ease explaining complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- You have experience leading a technical AI, science or engineering team. Balancing technical IC work with team leadership and stakeholder management.
- Expert with PyTorch or JAX.
- Not afraid of contributing to a big codebase; finds their way around independently with little guidance.
- Writes clean, readable, high-performance, fault-tolerant Python code.
- Doesn’t need roadmaps: moves independently and navigates uncertainty with confidence and high autonomy.
- Low-ego, collaborative and eager to learn.
- Track record of success through personal projects, professional projects or academia.

## Nice to have

- Ex-founder or builder
- Loves to build a dynamic, hard-working and exciting team culture
- PhD / Master in a relevant field (Mathematics, Physics, Machine Learning) — exceptional candidates from other backgrounds welcome.
- Research experience in agents, multimodal models, world models, robotics, diffusion models, cybersecurity, 3D understanding/generation, or time-series analysis.
- Experience working on large code bases or large machine learning models at scale.
- Contributions to a large open-source or industry codebase.
- Publications in top academic journals or conferences.
- Enjoys improving existing code: typing, tests, CI pipelines.

## 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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