AI Scientist - Domain Expert Crashworthiness

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.

Mistral AI is looking for a Domain Expert in crash worthiness simulations to help build AI-accelerated simulation capabilities for industrial engineering.

You will work at the intersection of industrial simulation, physics modeling, machine learning, and engineering workflows. Your role is to bring deep solid-mechanics expertise into the design, training, evaluation, and deployment of AI Physics Models for real engineering use cases.

This is a hands‑on technical role. We are looking for someone who understands industrial structural simulation not only conceptually, but through direct experience with simulation models, solver workflows, data generation, validation, and engineering decision‑making.

You will work with research, product, and customer‑facing teams to ensure that our models are useful against real engineering standards — not only benchmark metrics.

Relevant application areas may include automotive crash worthiness, aerospace structures, consumer‑electronics drop/reliability, manufacturing, durability/fatigue, and other nonlinear structural mechanics problems.

• Work with our research team to define, generate, and iteratively improve simulation datasets for training and evaluating crash worthiness foundation models, balancing coverage of relevant physical scenarios, simulation fidelity, and computational cost.

• Design and run high‑fidelity simulation campaigns using structural mechanics solvers such as Abaqus, LS‑DYNA, Ansys Mechanical, Radioss or equivalent tools.

• Define the relevant variation space for training data: geometry, mesh resolution, material behavior, boundary conditions, loading, contact, joints, failure modes, and engineering KPIs.

• Build or guide automated pipelines for simulation setup, execution, post‑processing, dataset creation, and model evaluation.

• Work with research teams to train and evaluate AI models on simulation data, and diagnose failure modes caused by data gaps, poor coverage, numerical artifacts, or model limitations.

• Evaluate model outputs against industrial engineering needs, including field‑level accuracy, scalar KPIs, deformation modes, load paths, energy absorption, stress/strain fields, failure indicators, uncertainty, and out‑of‑domain behavior.

• Work with industrial customers to understand their simulation workflows and engineering priorities, define use cases and success criteria, and incorporate their feedback into model development and validation.

• You have deep expertise in crash worthiness, solid mechanics, and structural mechanics, with substantial experience in industrial simulation workflows.

• You have a Master’s degree or equivalent technical depth in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, civil/structural engineering, computational mechanics, applied physics, or a related field.

• You have 4+ years of relevant industrial experience (or PhD +1 years) in domains such as automotive, aerospace, and consumer electronics.

• You have hands‑on experience with explicit dynamics for crash or impact simulation and understand nonlinear FEM and related topics…