Systems Engineer, HPC (APAC)

About the Company

Mistral AI builds efficient, high-performance AI systems and open models that are meant to fit naturally into everyday work. Its product suite includes Le Chat, La Plateforme, Mistral Code, and Mistral Compute, serving both enterprise and individual users.

The company operates with a collaborative, low-ego mindset and has teams across France, the USA, the UK, Germany, and Singapore. It focuses on large-scale infrastructure for distributed systems, cloud platforms, and HPC environments, supporting demanding research and production workloads.

Role Overview

The company is hiring Systems Engineers / System Administrators to design, run, and expand the infrastructure that supports its AI platforms. The role is highly hands-on and combines day-to-day Linux administration with engineering work focused on automation, scaling, reliability, and performance.

You will partner closely with infrastructure, HPC, platform, DevOps, and research teams to keep clusters and platforms stable as they grow.

Core Systems Operations

• Run and support large Linux environments across bare metal, clusters, and cloud platforms.
• Track system health, investigate incidents, and maintain high availability.
• Support both production and research workloads across different environments.

Infrastructure Scaling

• Contribute to scaling clusters from hundreds toward thousands of nodes.
• Work with systems that manage storage at petabyte scale.
• Improve performance, reliability, and overall resource efficiency.

Automation and Systems Engineering

• Automate routine operations using tools such as Python, Bash, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Improve deployment flows, provisioning, and system lifecycle management.
• Take part in architecture and system design decisions.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with HPC and infrastructure teams.
• Coordinate with platform and DevOps engineers.
• Support research teams and help translate user needs into infrastructure action.

What the Role Requires

Strong Linux administration experience is essential. The ideal candidate should already have exposure to large-scale environments such as HPC clusters or cloud infrastructure, and should be comfortable working with job schedulers like Slurm. Solid debugging ability across systems, hardware, and networks is also important.

Preferred Experience

Additional depth in any of the following areas will be valued, and the company does not expect expertise in all of them. Useful experience may include containers and orchestration such as Kubernetes, storage technologies such as Ceph, Lustre, or NFS, networking fundamentals including Ethernet and ideally InfiniBand, infrastructure-as-code tools, or GPU / AI / ML-related systems work.

Working Style

The team values pragmatic problem-solving, flexibility, and a willingness to work across multiple technical areas. A strong candidate will be comfortable handling broad responsibilities while still going deep in one specialty, and will bring a collaborative, low-ego, hands-on approach.

Why Join

This position offers the chance to play a major role in scaling advanced AI infrastructure. It also provides the opportunity to help shape data centre operations in a fast-growing startup environment while working with a highly technical and cross-functional team.

Compensation and Benefits

The package includes competitive pay, stock options, health insurance, a transportation allowance, a sports allowance, meal vouchers, and a generous parental leave policy.

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