HPC System Administrator (Paris / London)

About Mistral 

- At Mistral AI, we are a tight-knit, nimble team dedicated to bringing our cutting-edge AI technology to the world. Our mission is to make AI ubiquitous and open. 

- 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.

- Our teams are distributed between France, UK and USA.

Role Summary 

- We work at the cutting edge of science and technology, combining modern cloud environments with High-Performance Computing (HPC) standards. Our clusters use the latest available GPUs at large scales.

- As an HPC System Administrator, you will be responsible for managing our clusters, ensuring their smooth operations for all users and all sites.

- You will be the interface between our research and production users as well as various cloud providers to address node issues, capacity requests, image upgrades and tooling needs. 

- Location: Paris, France.

Key Responsibilities 

- Oversee the strategic design, system performance, resource allocation, configuration management and operational support for both our hardware and software systems.

- Solve and troubleshoot complex technical problems with a proactive approach to system optimization and issue resolution.

- Ensure HPC standard security practices and compliance.

- Maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure, configurations and procedures.

- Collaborate effectively across teams of engineers and researchers.

Qualifications & profile

We’re looking for a blend of experience with:

- High-performance networking

- GPUs in large scale distributed networks

- Large scale distributed storage file systems and providers

- Linux Kernel and OS

- Virtualization and container architecture in cloud environments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack…)

- SLURM

- Software, hardware and network failure troubleshooting

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

- LLM training

- AI/ML frameworks

- GPU programming (CUDA)

We’re also looking for people who are:

- Passionate

- Self-directed 

- Low-ego 

- Team player

Benefits

- Daily lunch vouchers 

- Contribution to a Gympass subscription 

- Monthly contribution to a mobility pass 

- Full health insurance for you and your family 

- Generous parental leave policy