Internship Operations Research Engineer

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.

YOUR ROLE

As part of the Digital Department of a transportation group, you will help design, improve, and integrate optimization algorithms that contribute to improving the group's performance and carbon footprint.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

As part of the data science department, you will be responsible for:

• Working with operational teams to understand their needs.
• Monitoring technological developments to find the best solution to a given problem.
• Designing and refining an operational research model.
• Identifying the data needed for these refinements and implementing the data flows.
• Improving algorithm performance.
• Analyzing results and producing reports explaining them.
• Describing the approach and presenting it to operational teams.
• Integrating the model into an operational tool and process.

This internship will allow you to develop your skills in Operations Research, as well as in all related fields (business, IT), through a real use case in the logistics sector.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

A specialized academic background and hands-on experience in Operations Research are mandatory requirements for this position.

• Education: Student in the second year of a Master's degree (Master 2) specializing in Operations Research.
• Technical skills: Strong knowledge of constraint modeling/programming; directed acyclic graphs; commercial solvers (ideally Cplex); C++ / Python; collaborative development tools (git); algorithm performance optimization.
• Nice to have: Cloud AWS; SQL.
• Languages: Very good level of English (oral and written) is required.
• Personal qualities: Your curiosity, rigor, and analytical skills will help you succeed in this role.

JOB ENVIRONMENT

• Location: Head Office – Marseille
• Internship start date: Q1 2027

Come along on CMA CGM’s adventure !