About Mistral Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. The team Mistral is building a sovereign AI cloud for Europe. Our customers in finance, healthcare, and the public sector run frontier models on European-jurisdiction infrastructure, and the Cloud Platform team builds the systems that make that possible — compute orchestration, Kubernetes, bare metal, storage, networking, and the datacenter fleet that runs it all. You will design and ship the layer every sovereign AI deployment depends on and shape the team building it. The Role A datacenter is not a cloud until software makes it one. Cabling validation, burn-in, firmware, deployment validation, software stack install — all of it automated, none of it click-ops. Your KPI is time to acceptance: the hours between a rack being physically installed and it serving customer workloads. You will drive it toward days, then hours, as we scale toward a gigawatt of compute across Europe. This is a founding leadership role at the intersection of hardware and software. Early on it is deliberately hands-on: most of your time in the code and the architecture, some of it on datacenter floors, because the automation has to survive contact with the machines it runs on. But the job is building and leading a team from day one — hiring your first engineers, coaching them, setting their growth paths, and running the rituals that keep quality high. As the team grows, the balance shifts toward people leadership, and you decide how fast.



You shape this new team's charter and set the standard for how every future Mistral datacenter comes online. Build the delivery pipeline in Go: provisioning, configuration, validation, burn-in, network bring-up, software stack install. Build the team from scratch: make the first hires, onboard and coach them, own their performance and growth paths — and set the tooling standards and the playbook every future site reuses. Own time-to-acceptance and drive it down relentlessly — measure it, break it down, kill the slowest step first. Work shoulder-to-shoulder with Hardware Design and Fleet Health — reliability starts at delivery. Partner with Product Managers and the datacenter org to plan delivery waves against capacity commitments. You have automated bare-metal fleets — you have written the software that turns racks into clusters. If you have done it by hand, you resented it and scripted it. ~ Hardware fluency: servers, GPUs, NICs, switches, firmware — you can read a parts list and a topology diagram. ~8+ years building backend or infrastructure systems, with at least 2 years leading engineers — real people leadership: you have hired, coached, and grown engineers, not just set technical direction. ~ Deep Linux: you are comfortable well below the application layer. ~ Willing to travel to datacenter sites when the work demands it. ~ 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. You can learn more about how we handle your personal data in our Applicant Privacy Policy. #

📌 Engineering Team Lead, Fleet Delivery (Madrid)
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📍 Madrid