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title: 'Tech & AI jobs in France'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/location/france'
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# Tech & AI jobs in France

> Paris has become one of Europe's strongest startup hubs, and French AI is having a moment. Mistral leads a fast-growing model-and-tooling scene, while Doctolib, Qonto, and Alan built large businesses in health and fintech. Government backing (the French Tech push, Station F) helped, and the roles now span frontier AI to enterprise SaaS to consumer apps like Back Market.

- **Open roles:** 2324
- **Hiring companies:** 314
- **Region type:** country
- **Timezone:** Europe/Paris
- **Population:** 68,170,000
- **Cost of living:** slightly below the US average, though central Paris rents run higher.
- **Climate:** Temperate oceanic in Paris and the north — mild, wet winters and warm summers. Mediterranean warmth in the south.
- **Page:** https://feeny.ai/location/france

## Cities in France

- [Paris](https://feeny.ai/location/france/paris) — 1625 jobs
- [Bordeaux](https://feeny.ai/location/france/bordeaux) — 58 jobs

## Top companies hiring in France

- [Pennylane SAS](https://feeny.ai/companies/pennylane-sas) — 119 open roles
- [Voodoo ](https://feeny.ai/companies/voodoo) — 108 open roles
- [Joko](https://feeny.ai/companies/joko) — 46 open roles
- [Mistral](https://feeny.ai/companies/mistral) — 95 open roles
- [amo](https://feeny.ai/companies/amo) — 31 open roles
- [Harmattan AI](https://feeny.ai/companies/harmattan-ai) — 83 open roles
- [Sony Music Entertainment France](https://feeny.ai/companies/sony-music-entertainment-france) — 22 open roles
- [Alan](https://feeny.ai/companies/alan) — 56 open roles
- [ILLUIN Technology](https://feeny.ai/companies/illuin-technology) — 15 open roles
- [Arago](https://feeny.ai/companies/arago) — 15 open roles
- [Alta Ares](https://feeny.ai/companies/alta-ares) — 24 open roles
- [Doctolib](https://feeny.ai/companies/doctolib) — 71 open roles

## Top Universities

**Where France's tech talent studies**

France's grandes ecoles are the country's tech-and-business elite: Ecole Polytechnique produced Mistral's Arthur Mensch and LVMH's Bernard Arnault, ENS sent Mistral's other co-founder into AI, and HEC Paris produced BlaBlaCar's founder. It's a concentrated, high-signal talent pipeline.

- **Ecole Polytechnique** (Palaiseau · 3,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Arthur Mensch, Bernard Arnault, Henri Poincare
- **HEC Paris** (Jouy-en-Josas · 2,700 undergrads) — notable alumni: Francois-Henri Pinault, Frederic Mazzella, Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
- **Ecole Normale Superieure** (Paris · 2,400 undergrads) — notable alumni: Guillaume Lample, Louis Pasteur, Cedric Villani
- **CentraleSupelec** (Gif-sur-Yvette · 4,500 undergrads) — notable alumni: Jean-Bernard Levy, Armand Peugeot
- **INSEAD** (Fontainebleau · 1,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Tidjane Thiam, Helen Alexander
- **Sorbonne University** (Paris · 40,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Marie Curie, Pierre Curie
- **Telecom Paris** (Palaiseau · 1,800 undergrads) — notable alumni: Stephane Richard, Eric Carreel
- **EPITA** (Le Kremlin-Bicetre · 9,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Fabrice Bellard

## Top Unicorns

**Unicorn startups in France**

France's unicorns are Paris-concentrated and increasingly AI-led: Mistral in frontier models, plus healthcare at Doctolib and Alan, business banking at Qonto, and a strong fintech and marketplace layer in Ledger, Back Market, and Ankorstore. It's the deepest unicorn bench in continental Europe outside the UK and Germany.

- **[Mistral AI](https://feeny.ai/companies/mistral)** — $14B · Open-weight large language models & AI platform
- **[Doctolib](https://feeny.ai/companies/doctolib)** — $6B · Medical appointment booking & practice software
- **[Back Market](https://feeny.ai/companies/back-market)** — $5.7B · Marketplace for refurbished electronics
- **Contentsquare** — $5.6B · Digital experience & behavior analytics
- **Qonto** — $5B · Business banking for freelancers & SMEs
- **[Alan](https://feeny.ai/companies/alan)** — $4.5B · Digital health insurance & healthcare app
- **Payfit** — $2B · Payroll & HR software for SMBs
- **[Ankorstore](https://feeny.ai/companies/ankorstore)** — $2B · Wholesale marketplace for independent retailers
- **Vestiaire Collective** — $1.7B · Marketplace for pre-owned luxury fashion
- **[Voodoo](https://feeny.ai/companies/voodoo)** — $1.7B · Mobile hyper-casual games & consumer apps
- **[Ledger](https://feeny.ai/companies/ledger)** — $1.4B · Hardware wallets & crypto security
- **Spendesk** — $1.2B · Spend management with corporate cards

## Events

**What's happening in France**

- [The Circle](https://luma.com/336vwdzz) — 2026-08-07 · Paris
- [Culture Canal : Paris l'été](https://luma.com/kcn74nr0) — 2026-08-08 · Paris
- [Maison Iyo : Flow](https://luma.com/xnofoa31) — 2026-08-08 · Paris
- [☕🤍 Tea Time : prépare une rentrée alignée avec tes ambitions ✨](https://luma.com/efhrck2g) — 2026-08-08 · Paris
- [📚 Offline Reading Party | Rooftop edition | Zoku | Paris 17th](https://luma.com/j5w91x28) — 2026-08-09 · Paris
- [🌞 Solar Eclipse Gathering | Community Only | Parc de Belleville](https://luma.com/the-sye8) — 2026-08-12 · Paris
- [📚 Offline Reading Party | Balcony of TiTi Palacio | Paris 4th](https://luma.com/rchkiyfl) — 2026-08-15 · Paris
- [📷 Special: Offline Photo Walk | World Photography Day | Canal Saint Martin](https://luma.com/the-qa21) — 2026-08-15 · Paris
- [✍️ Special: Offline Writing Party | 💪 World Never Give up Day | My Little Paris | Paris 9th](https://luma.com/ttw1fflq) — 2026-08-16 · Paris

## FAQ

**Tech jobs in France: common questions**

### How many tech jobs are open in France right now?

Feeny is tracking about 2,324 open tech roles in France, from roughly 314 companies hiring. Each one comes from a company's own careers page, so a listing means a live role rather than a stale repost. Paris accounts for most of the volume, with Bordeaux adding a smaller pool. Filter by discipline to narrow it down.

### Which cities in France have the most tech jobs?

Paris is where French tech concentrates, and most listings land there. It's home to the AI wave, the fintech names, and the big startup campus at Station F, so the depth of roles is well ahead of anywhere else in the country. Bordeaux is the notable secondary spot, smaller but real. Across the 2 French cities we index, expect Paris to carry the search unless you specifically want to be elsewhere.

### What companies are hiring for tech roles in France?

French AI is having a real moment, and Mistral is at the front of it, leading a wave of model and tooling work out of Paris. Beyond AI, Doctolib built a large health-tech business, Qonto scaled in fintech, and Alan took on health insurance. The French Tech push and Station F helped seed a lot of this. Feeny lists roles from about 314 companies nationwide, so the current set is worth a direct look.

### What kinds of tech roles are common in France?

The mix leans AI and machine learning, fintech, health tech, and backend engineering. Mistral and the broader model scene have pulled ML and research talent into Paris in a way that wasn't true a few years ago. Doctolib and Alan drive health-tech hiring, while Qonto adds fintech and payments work. France produces strong engineers, and the demand now matches the supply.

### What is it like to work in tech in France?

France gives you strong worker protections, generous vacation, and a culture that genuinely defends time off, which is a real draw. Paris is expensive by European standards, though still below London, and the tech scene there has more energy now than at any point in the last decade thanks to the AI push. The government's French Tech program has made it easier to build and hire. The honest trade is that some workplaces and admin still run heavily in French, so the language matters more here than in Amsterdam or Berlin.

### Can international candidates get a work visa to work in tech in France?

The French Tech Visa is a fast-track route built specifically for founders, employees, and investors, which makes France one of the more foreigner-friendly European markets for skilled tech hires. The EU Blue Card also applies if you'd rather go that way. Between the two, a qualified engineer with an offer has a clear path in. The market is genuinely open, and the government has spent real effort making relocation smoother.

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