Applied AI Software Engineer - Defense

Job summary

Responsibilities

Join Mistral AI’s Defense team to build software for defense institutions and industry.

• Design and build services for data ingestion, transformation, storage, querying and operational workflows.
• Develop shared data models, APIs and SDKs that help engineers build applications on a consistent foundation.
• Make authorization a core part of the architecture: define and enforce which users, applications and agents can access data or perform actions, with clear audit trails.
• Solve problems involving data consistency, schema evolution, concurrency, performance and failure recovery across services and data systems.
• Turn needs from our applied engineers and defense users into reusable software capabilities, making pragmatic choices about what to build and how to evolve them.

What they're looking for

• Strong practical familiarity with AI coding tools and agentic engineering workflows. You use coding agents regularly, can break complex work into well-scoped tasks, provide…
• A strong track record of building and operating production software, with substantial ownership of complex systems.
• Experience in data engineering or in building transactional, analytical or distributed systems. You understand the trade-offs behind data models, storage, query execution and…
• Experience building products where access control, permissions and data governance are central to how the system works.
• Broad software engineering skills and the ability to move between architecture, implementation and production debugging.

Tech stack

• Python
• SQL
• TypeScript