Energy Markets Data Science Intern

EDF Trading Limited; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 10,000 - 17,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Pension plan

Private medical insurance

Dental insurance

Health assessments

Gym membership

Electric car lease

Childcare vouchers

Cycle to work

Season ticket loans

Volunteer opportunities

Job summary

EDF Trading Limited is offering a six-month Short-Term Analyst Intern position in Paris. The role focuses on quantifying optimisation performance in the power trading desk, building datasets, and developing KPI metrics using Python, with a modern stack (Python, Rust, Vue.js/TypeScript). The internship runs 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

You will work across market contexts, model portfolio state, and contribute to dashboards and backtesting tools to support trading strategy decisions.

Qualifications

• Pursuing or holding a Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Interest in energy markets and power assets.
• Strong quantitative and data science fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Build a daily dataset combining market circumstances and portfolio state.
• Characterise days based on measurable indicators.
• Analyse past days to identify drivers of optimisation performance.
• Use data to improve KPIs and benchmarks.
• Integrate day tagging and KPI context into the KPI platform.
• Present outcomes to the team.

Skills

Python

Data analysis

Quantitative modelling

Statistical methods

Energy markets

Analytical thinking

Education

Master’s degree in energy/data science

Tools

Vue.js/TypeScript

GitHub Copilot

Job description

EDF Trading Limited is offering a six-month Short-Term Analyst Intern position in Paris. The role focuses on quantifying optimisation performance in the power trading desk, building datasets, and developing KPI metrics using Python, with a modern stack (Python, Rust, Vue.js/TypeScript). The internship runs 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

You will work across market contexts, model portfolio state, and contribute to dashboards and backtesting tools to support trading strategy decisions.