Stephane R.
Senior AI Engineer
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
About me
Intro
AI engineer with 5+ years building production ML systems, from large-scale autonomous vehicle perception at XPENG to founding AI-powered startups backed by Perplexity and Dataiku founders. Stanford MS&E graduate specializing in LLM infrastructure, RAG systems, and distributed training at scale. I deliver enterprise-grade AI solutions with expertise in the full stack from model optimization to deployment.
Work experience
AI Staff
Various CompaniesFreelance
Mar 2026 - Present
8 months
Founder in Residence
Entrepreneurs First
Mar 2025 - Jul 2025
5 months
Paris, France
Founding AI Engineer
Telepathic
Jan 2025 - Jul 2025
7 months
San Francisco, CA, USA
ai sdr agent, pivot to geo. backed by founders of perplexity, dataiku, slack
Founder in Residence
ODF
Sep 2024 - Dec 2024
4 months
San Francisco, CA, USA
Founder, CTO
Atune AIFreelance
Mar 2024 - Dec 2024
10 months
Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer
XPENG
Sep 2022 - May 2024
1 year 9 months
Santa Clara, CA, USA
large scale training of deep learning models for perception
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Stanford University School of Engineering
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
2 years 1 month
Stanford, CA, USA
Data Scientist
HelloFresh
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
9 months
Auckland, New Zealand
M&A Analyst
Lazard
Sep 2018 - Mar 2019
7 months
Paris, France
Digital Strategy Consultant
fifty-five
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
3 months
Consultant
Societe Generale
Sep 2017 - Jul 2018
11 months
Paris, France
Education
Stanford University
Master of Science, Operations Research (MS&E), Computer Science
Activities and societies: teaching assistant for ms&e 232 game theory, ms&e 249 financial management
CentraleSupélec
Master of Engineering, Applied Mathematics
Grade: 4.15/4.33
Admitted to Stanford, MIT
Lycée Louis-le-Grand
MPSI - MP*, Mathematics and Physics
Admitted to Ecole Centrale Paris, Mines Paris
Lycée Louis-le-Grand
High School Diploma, Science
Activities and societies: TS1
Licenses & certifications
GRE Quantitative 170/170
Issued: Dec 2018
TOEFL iBT 112/120
Issued: Nov 2018