Full time paid Internship DSU/ Stage DSU Paris

Technopolis Consulting Group Belgium SPRL; Paris; On-site; EUR 13,000 - 20,000; Full time

Job summary

Technopolis Group in Paris offers a paid internship in data science for public policy. You will join the DSU to support policy evaluations, sectoral studies, and consultancy projects across international clients.

No prior professional experience is required; strong coursework and projects are valued. You will work under experienced colleagues, develop data pipelines, NLP tasks, and visualisations, and contribute to R&D and proposal preparations.

Qualifications

• Master’s-level studies in a quantitative field and eligible for university-sponsored internship.
• Practical programming skills in Python demonstrated through coursework or projects.
• Good foundations in statistics and quantitative analysis with interest in economics and policy.
• Basic familiarity with machine learning or NLP, and interest in AI/LLM APIs for data processing.
• Careful, structured approach to data quality, validation, and reproducibility.
• Strong interest in public policy and evidence-based policymaking in science and health.
• Fluency in French and English with good communication in an international setting.

Responsibilities

• Support design and implementation of data science analyses to answer policy questions in Python.
• Collect, clean, link and validate data from multiple sources including open datasets.
• Help develop and test analytical workflows, involving ML, NLP, and LLM APIs.
• Contribute to indicators, scoreboards and visualisations for diverse audiences.
• Interpret and communicate results, assisting with reports and methodological docs.
• Contribute to DSU R&D and proposal prep by exploring new datasets and prototypes.

Skills

Python programming

Data analysis

Statistics fundamentals

Public policy interest

Education

Master’s degree in data science or related field

Tools

Python

Job description

Introduction

The selected person will join the Technopolis Group Data Science Unit (DSU), whose members work across different country offices. Our growing team brings together diverse academic backgrounds and a shared passion for developing data science applications to improve policymaking. The DSU contributes to policy consulting projects and conducts R&D to develop and test new applications, sometimes in collaboration with internal and external partners. Its work includes record linkage, classification, natural language processing, web scraping, generative AI and dynamic visualisations. As an intern, you will work alongside experienced data scientists and policy consultants, applying and developing your technical skills to address real-world policy questions.

About this job

The role of the intern in data science for public policy will be to support the data science components of policy evaluations, sectoral studies and strategic consultancy projects. Our clients include French regional councils, the French Development Agency (AFD), ADEME, the European Commission and multilateral development banks. You will be part of the DSU and collaborate with colleagues across policy areas, including science, technology and innovation, economic development, the green transition, international cooperation and health. You may also contribute to internal R&D and business development activities, particularly the preparation of data science approaches for project proposals. No previous professional experience is required. Relevant coursework, academic research and personal coding projects will be considered. We are looking to recruit a full-time intern for at least 6 months starting in Automn 2026. Internship should be sponsored by the intern’s university (stage conventionné).

Your profile

We are looking for a curious and motivated individual who enjoys working with data and wants to understand how data science can inform public policy. Suitable candidates should have:

• Master’s-level studies in data science, computer science, statistics, economics, engineering or another relevant discipline with a strong quantitative component, and be eligible for a university-sponsored internship.
• Practical programming skills in Python, demonstrated through coursework, research or personal projects, and the ability to write and understand their own analytical code.
• Good foundations in statistics and quantitative analysis, together with an interest in economics and public policy and in interpreting analytical results in their policy context.
• Basic familiarity with machine learning or natural language processing, and an interest in using generative AI and large language models programmatically through APIs for data processing, text analysis and knowledge extraction.
• A careful and structured approach to working with data, including attention to data quality, validation, documentation and reproducibility.
• An interest in public policy and in using data science to support evidence-based policymaking, particularly in areas such as science, technology and innovation, economic development, the green transition or health policy.
• Fluency in French and English, good communication skills and an ability to work collaboratively in an international and multicultural environment. A third language would be an asset.

Your responsibilities

Working under the guidance of experienced colleagues, you will:

• Support the design and implementation of data science analysesto answer policy questions, writing code in Python.
• Collect, clean, link and validate datafrom multiple sources, including open datasets, databases and web-based sources.
• Help develop and test analytical workflows, potentially involving machine learning, NLP and LLM APIs for classification, text analysis and knowledge extraction.
• Contribute to indicators, scoreboards and visualisations, including dashboards where relevant, to make findings accessible to different audiences.
• Interpret and communicate results, helping prepare reports, methodological documentation and presentations for clients.
• Contribute to the DSU’s R&D and proposal preparation, for example by exploring new datasets, testing methods or developing small prototypes.

Our offer

We offer a paid internship in Paris, with hands-on experience at the intersection of data science and public policy. You will work with an international, multidisciplinary team, receive guidance from experienced colleagues and contribute to both client projects and the development of new analytical applications. Many of our interns become full-time staff at Technopolis or go on to pursue opportunities in the public and private sectors.