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Mistral is hiring a Technical Program Manager to partner with its code and vibe research team—the researchers shaping how Mistral's models write, reason about, and interact with code. This is a research partnership role, not a coordination role. You'll be embedded with the team, fluent in their work, and operationally responsible for everything that isn't the science itself.
Key responsibilities include:
**Research Visibility**: Partner with the team to maintain a shared, accessible view of ongoing work—what's in flight, where it's heading, what's ready to hand off. Make research legible to adjacent teams and leadership without pulling researchers into status work.
**Operational Partnership**: Be the team's operational partner. Handle coordination, resourcing, and cross-team conversations that would otherwise sit on researchers' plates, so the team stays focused on science.
**Research-to-Release**: Own the operational path from research work to release candidate for code and vibe workstreams. Partner with the release function to ensure the team's work flows cleanly into Mistral's release machinery.
**Visibility & Communication Cadence**: Code and vibe research connects to many efforts across the organization. Keep these interfaces clean and high-signal, so the team's work integrates naturally with the wider science org.
**Strategic Communication**: Translate the team's work into clear, well-timed updates for leadership and adjacent teams—what's being built, what matters, what's coming next.
The ideal candidate is genuinely excited about code models. You play with them, have opinions about what makes them feel good to use, and read papers because you want to. A research background is a plus but not required—what matters is that you care about this domain and can hold your own in a room full of researchers.
Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience); 3+ years of technical program management, operations, or research coordination; strong analytical skills; ability to engage substantively with research work and build credibility with technical teams; excellent written and verbal communication.
Nice-to-have: experience in research-heavy or ML/AI organizations; familiarity with code generation, coding agents, or software engineering benchmarks; hands-on experience with modern coding tools; track record of building systemic processes from the ground up; comfort in fast-paced, high-ambiguity environments.
