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August 27, 2025

How to get a job at AI scaleup Hugging Face: ‘We like people who can tell us where to go’

The Franco-American open source champion recruits ‘constantly’, says talent acquisition lead Flavien Coronini

Founded nearly a decade ago in Paris, Hugging Face has quickly become a major French success story in a buzzy field: open source AI.

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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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