Robotics Operations Specialist (AI)

Location: Paris, France; hybrid workplace

Company

Mistral AI provides full-stack AI solutions spanning frontier models, developer tools, applications, and compute for high-stakes industries.

What you will do

• Support teleoperation sessions through setup, monitoring, real-time troubleshooting, scheduling, collector onboarding, equipment handoff, and readiness checks.
• Travel to client sites and data collection locations to onboard and train operators on teleoperation systems, protocols, and best practices.
• Execute robot benchmarks and evaluations by preparing robots, stations, props, and task environments and maintaining consistent trial conditions.
• Review robotics datasets, onboard annotators, analyze collection quality and operator performance, and maintain dataset health metrics.
• Verify hardware, software packages, and peripherals across the robotics stack; run lab and staging tests, log bugs, and contribute to root-cause analysis.
• Gather operator feedback, support process and hardware improvements, and maintain runbooks, test results, and operational quality documentation.

Requirements

• Comfort working hands-on with physical hardware, including diagnosing, setting up, and maintaining equipment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with both engineers and non-technical operators.
• Ability to work autonomously and exercise independent judgment on methods and execution.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with robotics and teleoperation systems.
• Background in a research or hardware-forward environment.
• Experience writing operational runbooks or technical documentation.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, low-ego, team-oriented environment focused on AI innovation.
• Distributed workforce across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East.
• Benefits may include healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, and meal and transportation allowances, varying by country.