Senior Data Center Hardware Engineer

Mistral
Paris, France
On-site

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have hands-on experience with GPU-dense systems and complex data center deployments.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with deep data center hardware experience and a track record of managing vendor escalations
    — “coordinate repairs, part replacements and escalations directly with hardware vendors”
  • Individuals who have led full rack builds and GPU-dense platform deployments in production
    — “full rack builds and bring-up, GPU-dense platform deployment (H100/H200-class and next-gen)”
  • Engineers who thrive in collaborative, hands-on roles with a focus on reliability and safety standards
    — “impeccable safety and discipline: ESD/LOTO/PPE without exception”

Things to consider

  • The role requires physical presence at data centers in the Paris region with occasional travel
    — “Based at one of our data centers in the Paris region, with occasional visits to our other sites as needed.”
  • No direct line management is expected, focusing instead on technical mentorship and automation
    — “no direct line management”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with structured root-cause analysis and corrective actions in your resume
    — “methodical root-cause analysis that ends in concrete corrective actions”
  • Emphasize your ability to mentor and coach engineers during live incidents
    — “able to coach engineers during live incidents with composure”
  • Showcase your track record of deploying racks from delivery to production-ready status
    — “taken racks from delivery to production, with concrete examples to show for it”
  • Demonstrate strong vendor management skills with specific examples of SLA enforcement
    — “hold them to their SLAs; drive proactive fixes from failure trends”
  • Include experience with BMC/IPMI logs and Linux diagnostics in your technical profile
    — “read BMC/IPMI consoles, OS logs and crash dumps”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Individual

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What success looks like

  • lead complex hardware interventions
  • coordinate repairs and escalations with vendors
  • deploy and validate new racks and platforms
Typical background
6+ years in data center/server hardwareend-to-end hardware expertise

Skills & requirements

Required

Data-center-hardwareVendor-managementDiagnosticsDeploy-and-validateMentorshipFacility-interfaceSpares-and-reliability

Preferred

PythonBash

Stack & domain

Data Center HardwareServer HardwareGpu-dense SystemsVendor ManagementRoot Cause AnalysisAutomationCommunicationProblem SolvingTeamworkMentorshipAIData Center Operations

About the role

Original posting from Mistral via Ashby

ABOUT MISTRAL

Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. 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 MISSION

You will be the reference point for the most complex hardware interventions across our sites.

Mistral's compute is our largest investment and the foundation of frontier AI in Europe. As a Senior Data Center Hardware Engineer (L4-L5), you own the interventions that require the highest level of technical expertise: multi-node failures in production, full-rack deployments of GPU-dense systems, and vendor escalations where you speak as the technical authority for our sites.

You'll work end-to-end — compute, storage, interconnect, power and cooling interfaces — across our data center footprint, raising the bar on reliability as our capacity grows. This is a hands-on senior IC role: deep technical leadership and mentorship, no direct line management.

Location: Based at one of our data centers in the Paris region, with occasional visits to our other sites as needed.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Lead complex interventions — vendor-level and multi-node operations in production: full rack builds and bring-up, GPU-dense platform deployment (H100/H200-class and next-gen, including liquid-cooled racks), intricate recabling, post-restart diagnosis. You own the plan, the risk assessment, and the rollback.
  • Own vendor management — coordinate repairs, part replacements and escalations directly with hardware vendors; hold them to their SLAs; drive proactive fixes from failure trends.
  • Diagnose at depth — correlate symptoms across compute, storage, interconnect and cooling; read BMC/IPMI consoles, OS logs and crash dumps; methodical root-cause analysis that ends in concrete corrective actions.
  • Deploy and validate — structured bring-up and validation of new racks and platforms; work with networking and infrastructure teams to take installations from delivery to production-ready.
  • Lift the team — mentor and pair with L1–L3 engineers on live operations; turn your knowledge into SOPs, checklists and training material; propose and build small automation (Python/Bash) to shorten MTTR.
  • Work the facility interface — partner with critical facilities/engineering ops on power, cooling (air and liquid), PDU and monitoring (BMS/EPMS) boundaries; enforce ESD/LOTO/PPE and audit-ready change discipline everywhere.
  • Own spares & reliability — plan spares strategy, track fleet failure trends, and run proactive vendor actions before incidents happen.

ABOUT YOU

  • 6+ years in data center / server hardware or L2/L3 hardware support, including complex hands-on work in production environments (HPC/AI/cloud at scale strongly preferred).
  • End-to-end hardware expertise: CPU/memory/PCIe (incl. accelerators), NICs, PSUs, drives, network, power and cooling interfaces (DLC included); strong judgment on when and how to escalate.
  • Diagnostics depth: confident with BMC/IPMI logs, Linux logs and CLI checks; structured root-cause analysis.
  • Deployment experience: you've taken racks from delivery to production, with concrete examples to show for it.
  • Vendor fluency: you've managed hardware vendors — RMAs, field replacements, escalations — to concrete outcomes.
  • Impeccable safety and discipline: ESD/LOTO/PPE without exception; clean, labeled, auditable work.
  • Communication & mentoring: clear status updates and handovers; able to coach engineers during live incidents with composure.
  • Mobility: willing to visit our other sites in the Paris region as needed.

NICE TO HAVE

  • GPU-dense platform experience: NVIDIA H-series (H100/H200) or GB-series rack deployments.
  • High-speed interconnects (InfiniBand/RoCE), RAID/storage (NVMe/SAS/SATA), vendor tooling (iDRAC/iLO/IPMI).
  • Automation (Python/Bash) for ops tooling and reporting; ticketing (Jira/ServiceNow), inventory/RMA flows.
  • Hardware qualification, burn-in or factory validation background.

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 https://app.notion.com/p/mistralai/Benefits-at-Mistral-36e6ba59a7fe836b93dd01737fcc27ef?source=copy_link.

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Source: Mistral careers (Ashby)

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