Mistral AI

Design & Reliability Engineering Manager

Mistral AI
Posted 10/22/2026full-timeParis • FranceSeniorLeadWebsite
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Demonstrates expertise in mission-critical data center design and engineering, with a strong focus on critical power and cooling architecture, operational risk management, and technical reliability. Proficient in leading multidisciplinary reviews and influencing stakeholders through effective communication and technical documentation.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Mission-Critical Data Center DesignCritical Power And Cooling ArchitectureOperational Risk ManagementRoot-Cause AnalysisTechnical Reliability Engineering

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own and continuously improve technical design criteria and colocation requirements for new facilities, expansions and retrofits
  • Translate GPU platform roadmaps into measurable facility envelopes covering IT load, rack density, electrical topology, redundancy, cooling capacity and monitoring
  • Review utility, electrical, mechanical and controls architectures for demanding AI loads
  • Lead multidisciplinary reviews of diagrams, calculations, capacity models, failure-mode studies and proposed deviations
  • Participate in site selection, technical due diligence, provider RFPs, design milestones and commercial technical schedules
  • Define design review and exception processes balancing performance, resilience, deployment speed, efficiency, capital cost and operability
  • Define commissioning and integrated testing requirements, acceptance criteria and defect management
  • Validate electrical and cooling infrastructure under normal, maintenance and credible fault conditions
  • Review test scripts and results for utility loss, UPS/generator transitions, cooling failures, controls faults and restoration
  • Ensure operational handover includes accurate documentation, monitoring points, setpoints, maintenance constraints and emergency procedures
  • Support live-site changes and capacity upgrades
  • Act as technical escalation point for electrical, mechanical and controls incidents
  • Analyze BMS/EPMS trends, event sequences, power-quality records, cooling telemetry and maintenance evidence
  • Lead or challenge technical root-cause investigations with colocation partners
  • Develop risk-ranked corrective actions and reliability improvement programs
  • Identify fleet-wide patterns and feed lessons learned into designs, tests, specifications and provider governance
  • Review maintenance and change proposals affecting compute availability
  • Work with IT hardware, network and platform teams on failure domains
  • Influence colocation providers, consultants and OEM partners through rigorous technical reviews
  • Present design trade-offs, reliability risks and investment recommendations
  • Develop reusable standards, technical playbooks and engineering knowledge sharing

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • At least 8 years in mission-critical data center design, engineering, commissioning or technical reliability
  • Degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, or equivalent professional experience
  • Deep knowledge in one engineering discipline and strong working knowledge of the other
  • Expertise in critical power and cooling architecture, redundancy, failure-mode analysis and operational risk management
  • Experience reviewing engineering drawings, calculations, commissioning evidence and root-cause analyses
  • Experience coordinating technical specialists
  • Ability to influence colocation providers and cross-functional stakeholders
  • Excellent English communication
  • Willingness to travel
  • Preferred: experience with AI/HPC infrastructure, high-density accelerator platforms and direct-to-chip liquid cooling
  • Preferred: knowledge of CDUs, facility-to-technology cooling interfaces, hydraulic performance, cooling-water quality and leak management
  • Preferred: experience with electrical protection/selectivity, power quality, controls sequences, integrated systems testing and BMS/EPMS analytics
  • Preferred: experience creating technical standards across multiple sites or providers
  • Preferred: professional engineering registration or equivalent technical credentials

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Healthcare coverage
  • Parental leave
  • Retirement plans
  • Relocation support
  • Wellness programs
  • Meal allowances
  • Transportation allowances
  • Other location-specific perks

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Hard Skills
Electrical EngineeringMechanical EngineeringFailure-Mode AnalysisCommissioning Evidence ReviewEngineering Drawings ReviewTechnical Standards DevelopmentCooling Capacity AnalysisCapacity ModelingIntegrated Systems TestingBMS/EPMS Analytics
Soft Skills
Excellent English CommunicationInfluencing StakeholdersCross-Functional Coordination
Tools & Technologies
Cooling TelemetryPower Quality RecordsUPS/Generator SystemsColocation Management Systems
Certifications & Qualifications
Professional Engineering Registration
Industry Keywords
AI InfrastructureHPC InfrastructureHigh-Density Accelerator PlatformsDirect-To-Chip Liquid CoolingCooling-Water Quality Management