Engineering Manager

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.

About Mistral

At Mistral AI, we believe in the power of AI to simplify tasks, save time and enhance learning and creativity. Our technology is designed to integrate seamlessly into daily working life.

We democratize AI through high-performance, optimized, open-source and cutting-edge models, products and solutions. Our comprehensive AI platform is designed to meet enterprise needs, whether on-premises or in cloud environments. Our offerings include le Chat, the AI assistant for life and work.

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 France, USA, UK, Germany and Singapore. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.

Join us to be part of a pioneering company shaping the future of AI. Together, we can make a meaningful impact. See more about our culture on .

Role summary

We are seeking passionate and highly skilled Engineering Managers to join our team and drive the development of mission-critical systems powering our AI platform and products.

In this role, you will leverage your deep technical expertise and leadership skills to build scalable, high-impact systems while nurturing and guiding high-performing engineering teams. Depending on your background, you may oversee one (Team Lead) or multiple (Engineering Manager) product teams, driving both execution and delivery while staying hands-on.

Our product engineering teams typically consist of five members. As a team lead, you will dynamically balance individual contributions, project leadership, and team management, with the balance shifting as your team grows. You will work closely with Product Managers to deliver features that directly benefit our users and business. Your responsibilities will include fostering a strong team culture, establishing clear processes, elevating engineering standards, and ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery.

This is a highly critical role at the intersection of product engineering infrastructure and people. You will help shape how our engineering organization works, how we build at scale and how we turn cutting-edge AI research into reliable production-grade systems used by millions of developers and end users.

If you enjoy building complex systems, leading ambitious engineers and shipping products that matter, this role is for you.

What you will do

Depending on your skills and field of expertise, you will be involved in key components of our technology, including:

• Empower Your Team(s) : Act as the clear point of contact for your team and its projects. Remove obstacles, unblock execution and create an environment where engineers can focus on building impactful high-quality products.

• Lead Delivery and Accountability : Own the delivery of your team’s roadmap and ensure projects are shipped with the right level of quality reliability and performance. Keep the team accountable for results and maintain strong execution momentum.

• Bridge Product and Technology : Partner closely with Product Managers to define the roadmap and priorities of your team. Scope initiatives, estimate engineering effort and drive prioritization decisions based on business and technical impact. Keep the whole team involved and engaged in the product direction.

• Hands-on Technical Leadership : Stay deeply involved in architecture design, system design, coding, peer reviews and technical decision-making. Lead by example and remain connected to the day-to-day challenges of the team.

• Process and Clarity : Define and evolve team processes, best practices and execution rituals with the team. Ensure they remain relevant as the team and product scale.

• Raise the Engineering Bar: Challenge engineers to step up, take ownership and grow beyond their comfort zone. Increase the team’s bus factor through knowledge sharing, documentation and rotation of responsibilities.

About you

• 5+ years of relevant professional work experience.

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.

• Proficiency in one of the following language : Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, Golang.

• Experience with building and leading high-performing teams.

• Experience with working with cross functional teams like product, design, business, etc.

• Experience with project management and planning.

• Ownership and capacity to ship products end-to-end.

• Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Low ego and team spirit mindset.

• Autonomous and self-starter.

Now, it would be ideal if you had experience with:

• Experience with Platform & DX products (API, SDK, Tooling, Observability, Billing, etc.)

• AI/ML/MLOps engineering

Our Culture

We're driven to build a strong company culture and are looking for individuals with solid alignment with the following:

• Reason with rigor

• Are you audacious enough?

• Make our customers succeed

• Ship early and accelerate

• Leave your ego aside

Engineering blog

Our first Engineering blog post is live, you can check it out here !

Location & Remote

The position is based in our Paris HQ offices and we encourage going to the office as much as we can (at least 3 days per week) to create bonds and smooth communication. Our remote policy aims to provide flexibility, improve work-life balance and increase productivity. Each manager can decide the amount of days worked remotely based on autonomy and a specific context (e.g. more flexibility can occur during summer). In any case, employees are expected to maintain regular communication with their teams and be available during core working hours.

What we offer

Competitive salary and equity package

‍⚕️ Health insurance

Transportation allowance

Sport allowance

Meal vouchers

Private pension plan

Generous parental leave policy

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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.

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