> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Applied AI, Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/cb2049e2cba8970e Mistral AI posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in Palo Alto, CA with no pay posted. A customer-facing Applied AI Engineer works across the pre-sale and post-implementation lifecycle to help customers adopt and deploy Mistral AI products. Read from the employer’s posting on November 9, 2026. - [Mistral AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/mistral-ai) Posted Jul 10, 2026 by Mistral AI · open on Ashby as of Nov 9, 2026 Pay not posted Palo Alto, CA Hybrid Full-time A customer-facing Applied AI Engineer works across the pre-sale and post-implementation lifecycle to help customers adopt and deploy Mistral AI products. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fcb2049e2cba8970e&placement=top) - [View posting at Mistral AI](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mistral.ai/2ec2dacd-1117-479b-a4c1-efa9df530798/application) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay Not posted Not stated FDE postings, 44 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $152K to $203K, median $180K. ### The work Builds what the customer runs Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **2+ years** technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer) on AI-based products Background - **Software engineering** - **Implementation and data engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 2+ years. How many do you have? The job is in Palo Alto, CA. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. 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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. ### The Role Mistral AI is seeking a Applied AI Engineer to facilitate the adoption of its products among customers and collaborate with them to address complex technical challenges. The Applied AI Engineer will be an integral part of our Applied AI Engineering team, which is dedicated to driving the successful deployment of Mistral AI products. They will work hand-in-hand with customers from the pre-sale stage to post-implementation, ensuring our solutions meet and exceed client expectations. In this role, you’ll manage daily customer relations involving multiple stakeholders (CEO/CTO, data scientists, and software engineers) and function as a key resource in externalising our research in production settings. ### What You Will Do - You’ll be responsible for onboarding customers on our products and APIs, providing guidance on prompting, evaluation, and fine-tuning, and ensuring the best production integration with back-end and front-end interfaces. - You’ll work on state-of-the-art GenAI applications from consumer products to industrial use cases, driving with our customers a crucial technological transformation. - You’ll individually help deploy into production use cases with a considerable business impact across various industries. - You’ll work in collaboration with our researchers, other AI engineers, product engineers on our most complex customer projects involving complex fine-tuning, state-of-the-art LLM applications, and contributing to our open source codebases for tasks such as inference and fine-tuning. - You’ll be involved in pre-sales calls to understand potential clients' needs, challenges, and aspirations. You will provide technical guidance on our products and explain Mistral technologies to various stakeholders. - Your collaboration with our product and science team to improve continuously our product and model capabilities based on customers’ feedback ### What We're Looking For - You are fluent in English - You hold a PhD / master in AI / data science. - You have 2+ years as a technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer) on AI-based products - You have experience in Fine Tuning LLMs, tackling advanced RAG or agentic use cases - You have deep understanding of concepts and algorithms underlying machine learning and LLMs - You're experienced with building and deploying LLMs or NLP applications - You have proven experience in AI or machine learning product implementation with APIs, back-end and front-end interfaces. - You have strong technical coding skills in Python - You have experience with deep learning with Pytorch - You have experience with agents framework such as Langchain, vector DBs - You hold strong communication skills with an ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms with technical and non-technical audiences Ideally you have: - Contributed to open-source projects in particular in the space of LLMs - Experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect or Technical Product Manager ### 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. For the most up-to-date details on benefits available in your location, please refer to our Benefits page. ### Privacy Policy Your privacy matters to us. You can learn more about how we handle your personal data in our Applicant Privacy Policy. [View posting at Mistral AI](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mistral.ai/2ec2dacd-1117-479b-a4c1-efa9df530798/application) ## About Mistral AI Builds AI models, applications, developer tools, and compute infrastructure for individuals, enterprises, and governments. 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