Junior AI Engineer - Internship - Circularity (f/m/d)

THE CIRCULARITY DOMAIN IS HIRING AN AI ENGINEER INTERN

Decathlon aims to make circularity the new norm by making repair, rental, and second-hand services as intuitive as buying new. At the heart of this transition, the Circularity Business Unit works to decarbonize our business model in line with the Paris Agreement. You will join the PLANT team (Planet Analytics/AI team), the intelligence engine of the domain. Our mission is to transform raw data into concrete actions through Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions. By joining us, you become part of a global collective of sports enthusiasts using tech to protect our playing field and positively impact the lives of a billion people.

JOIN THE PLANT TEAM

You will join an agile team of Data and AI experts dedicated to building decision-support tools for the sustainable transition. You will specifically work on the strategic Circular PIM project to automate product data collection across the global market. As part of an internal project launch, we are recruiting a specialized AI Engineer intern, based in Lille (Campus) or Lyon.

YOUR MISSIONS

• Design and deploy robust GenAI agents for web scraping product data (focusing on the cycling universe).
• Develop reliable data pipelines to extract, clean, and structure unstructured information.
• Architect the ingestion system to feed the Circular PIM (Product Information Management).
• Ensure data quality by implementing automated testing and constant monitoring.
• Collaborate with the Pricing team to align data formats with circular pricing models.
• Document and model database schemas to ensure project scalability.
  
  

YOUR TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT

• GenAI & LLM: LLM APIs, Prompt Engineering, Agent frameworks (e.g., ADK, Vertex AI).
• Languages: Python (Expertise in data structures and classes).
• Web Scraping (nice to have): BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Requests.
• Data & Cloud: SQL, Data modeling concepts, Cloud environments, workflow orchestration.
• Quality & DevOps: Pytest/Unittest, Git (daily tool).
  
  

What You Need To Succeed

• A significant first experience (university projects, internship, or apprenticeship) in a similar technical environment (Python/Data).
• A strong appetite for teamwork and a culture of knowledge sharing.
• An interest in the impact of sport on personal and collective development.
• The desire to join a company committed to Tech4Good and responsible innovation.
  
  

WHY JOIN US?

• Sport & Community: You will work in a vibrant workplace that encourages sports practice and team-building moments with your fellow teammates.
• Brand Ambassador: You will have the chance to test new Decathlon products and share your passion on the field by joining our internal sports clubs.
• Join a supportive community of interns and apprentice students: collaboration, conviviality, and dedicated events.
• Learning Culture: You are joining a Happy Trainees 2025 certified company, recognized for providing a high-quality learning environment for interns.
• Work Tools: Choice of hardware (Mac or Windows) provided in line with your missions and our social responsibility commitments.
• Commuting: 50% reimbursement of your public transportation pass.
  
  

DECATHLON DIGITAL CONTEXT

What if technology allowed us to push the boundaries and take sports experiences to new levels? That's exactly our goal at Decathlon Digital! We are a team of 5,000+ experts in software engineering, product management, data, cloud, and cybersecurity, distributed across Paris, Lille, and Amsterdam. Together, we are creating the largest digital sports platform, leveraging tech innovation from design to value chain optimization, connected experiences and product second life.

Changing the game for good. We are in this for the love of sports. And like everything we love, we want it to last. That’s why we are embarking on a journey to create a more sustainable tech model, reducing our direct environmental impact while maintaining a safe, diverse, and inclusive space for all our people to learn and thrive together. Team up with us to design the digital future of sports.