Public Policy Data Science Intern - Paid in 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

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.