Jobs at Mistral AI

At Mistral AI, our mission is to make AI ubiquitous and open. We are passionate about bridging the gap between technology and businesses of all sizes. We are a leading innovator in the field of open-source large language models.

Our advanced LLM solutions can be seamlessly deployed on any cloud, allowing for optimized integration and robust performance. Developers are using our API via la Plateforme to build incredible AI-first applications powered by our models that can understand and generate natural language text and code. We are multilingual at our core. We released le Chat, as a demonstrator of our models.

We are a tight-knit, nimble team dedicated to bringing our cutting-edge AI technology to the world. Our teams are distributed between France, UK and USA. We are creative, low-ego, team-spirited, and have been passionate about AI for years. We hire people who thrive in competitive environments, because they find them more fun to work in. We hire passionate women and men from all over the world.

Mistral AI has emerged as Europe’s flagship foundation model company, combining technical excellence with a strong open-source ethos. Founded in 2023 by veterans of DeepMind and Meta’s FAIR lab, Mistral has rapidly shipped a family of models ranging from the efficient Mistral-7B and Mixtral MoE, to multilingual and domain-specific systems like Mistral Saba and Devstral, to its newest reasoning models under the Magistral line. The company has coupled this with a consumer-facing product, Le Chat, which crossed 1 million downloads within two weeks of its mobile launch and now competes directly with ChatGPT across Europe. Mistral’s strategy of dual distribution, open-weight models for developers and premium closed-weight APIs for enterprises, has established it as the leading independent alternative to U.S. based incumbents, validated by partnerships with Microsoft (Azure distribution), AFP, the French Army, Stellantis, and Luxembourg.

Financially, Mistral has scaled at breakneck speed. In under two years it has raised more than $1 billion in capital at a $6 billion valuation, with backing from a16z, Lightspeed, General Catalyst, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Bpifrance. Revenue remains in the eight-digit range, but monetization pathways are clear: paid subscriptions for Le Chat, enterprise API licensing, and strategic infrastructure plays like Mistral Compute, a European GPU cloud launching in 2026 with Nvidia. President Macron has publicly endorsed Le Chat as a sovereign alternative, underscoring the company’s unique position at the intersection of national policy, open-source community pull, and commercial adoption. With a technical team that helped design LLaMA and Chinchilla, a rapidly expanding product portfolio, and political tailwinds supporting European AI sovereignty, Mistral is positioned to become the leading independent foundation model company outside the U.S. and China.

Written as of August 2025