Data Scientist /Operations Research Intern (6 months - June/July - December 2025)

About us

Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.

Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.

Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group’s shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world.

Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.

Summary

Reporting to the Data Scientist, this intern’s responsibility is supporting all aspects of AI projects implementation, from gathering business requirements to implementing them. He will be exposed to first-hand experience working on prototype that looks to resolve real world business problems, and the opportunity to scale these solutions organisation-wide.

Responsibilities

• Gather business requirements from business users
• Data collection, cleansing, processing and analysis
• Building models to solve real-world problems raised by business users
• Data science (Anomaly detection with deep learning, Generative AI projects using Chat GPT API and Time series analysis)
• Operations research (Optimal flow in a network, Shortest path for maritime road that optimizes bunker cost,etc.)
• Participate and implement exciting protype projects that can be scaled within the organization and create a lasting impact (e.g. Data Science/AI Projects - Network Optimization)

Requirements

• Students currently pursing Bachelors / Master’s degree related to Computing/Data Science/Physics/Mathematics/ Analytics or Operational Research
• Ideally final year / penultimate year students
• Fast learner, ability to work independently
• Good exposure in using programming languages: Python and SQL
• Experience in Operations research / Machine learning / Front End is a plus

**Kindly note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

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