Lead AI engineer

Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
On-site · Paris, France · Bordeaux, France
Experience
Senior · 7+ years

Job description

Lead AI Engineer responsible for designing, developing, and driving adoption of AI systems within a strategic business domain (e.g., Sales, GTM and Marketing, or Finance & Legal). Combines AI engineering expertise with product and business understanding to define roadmaps and deliver measurable outcomes.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
Work mode
On-site · Paris, France · Bordeaux, France
Pay
EUR 90,000 – 100,000 / year

What you'll do

  • Identify high-value opportunities with Business leaders
  • Define the Tech vision and own the agent product roadmap for your domain
  • Design and build production-grade AI systems
  • Drive architecture decisions
  • Ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability
  • Work closely with end users
  • Measure adoption and outcomes
  • Accelerate AI transformation across your domain
  • Promote best practices for evaluation, testing, guardrails, and observability
  • Review designs and mentor engineers
  • Raise the quality bar across initiatives
  • Mentor AI Engineers and Agent Builders
  • Share knowledge and reusable components
  • Build AI expertise within your organization

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years in Software Engineering, ML Engineering, or Applied AI
  • Strong experience with LLMs, RAG, AI Agents, evaluation, and production systems
  • Ability to influence Product and Business decisions
  • Proven leadership on complex cross-functional initiatives

How to get hired

  1. 1A 30-40 min phone conversation with one of our Tech recruiters
  2. 2An initial 1 hour technical discussion with a member of the Data Science team and Engineering Team
  3. 32 x 45-minute "STAR" interviews with future Mirakl colleagues to discuss our values and company culture

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About Mirakl

Empowering every business to compete in the platform economy

Mirakl's operating system combines an enterprise marketplace solution (Mirakl Platform) that enables retailers and B2B organizations to launch, scale, and operate marketplaces and dropship, AI-powered multichannel selling (Mirakl Connect), retail media (Mirakl Ads) and an agentic commerce infrastructure (Mirakl Nexus).

Key facts

  • 750+ employees
  • 2012
  • Boston and Paris
  • SaaS / commerce software
  • Member of French Tech Next40
  • 9 offices worldwide: Paris, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Boston, London, Munich, New York, Sydney, Tokyo
  • 350+ Mirakl Tech teams members mainly based in France
  • 5 SaaS Solutions
  • 450+ marketplaces (B2C and B2B)
  • Network of over 100k third-party marketplace sellers

Partners & customers

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What they value

  • Work Hard Together
  • Get Things Done
  • Go Above & Beyond
  • Succeed Through Expertise
  • Satisfy & Empower Clients