Software Engineer, Knowledge and Search

About the Role

Join Mistral AI as a Software Engineer on our Knowledge and Search team to design, implement, and scale critical search capabilities that empower users and internal systems with vital information.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and enhance fast, reliable, and scalable indexing and searching capabilities for web and knowledge content.
• Optimize and fine-tune full search pipelines, from document ingestion to retrieval, using search-oriented databases.
• Own information retrieval systems serving both internal needs and enterprise customers.
• Ensure search capabilities meet increasing customer demands.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to advance search reliability, performance, and scale across cloud-native and on-premise services.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant professional work experience.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience building and scaling distributed search engine systems.
• Excellent proficiency in backend software development (Python, Go, C++, Rust).
• Solid proficiency in infrastructure management (Docker, CI/CD, Helm, K8s, Terraform).
• Good knowledge of cloud-native ecosystems.
• Autonomous and self-starter with the ability to communicate with influence.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with AI/ML engineering.