The Innovation and Development Division (IDD) drives the innovation strategy for the Hubs and Operations, and contributes to the Group's transformation. It is responsible for imagining, developing and incubating new solutions until they are brought to market, particularly when it comes to offers with a high technological content (including digital and IT). IDD gathers more than 3,000 employees from 70 nationalities at 60 sites.How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?Presentation of the entityAir Liquide is a world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and healthcare. Present in 72 countries with 67,800 employees, the Group serves more than 4 million customers and patients.Through the passion and diversity of its people, Air Liquide leverages energy and environment transition, changes in healthcare and digitization, and delivers greater value to all its stakeholders. Join us for a stimulating experience: you’ll find a world of learning and development opportunities where inventiveness is at the heart of what we do, in an open, collaborative and respectful environment.Air Liquide Innovation Campus Delaware is one of Air Liquide’s 5 Innovation Campuses worldwide. Our innovation campus in Delaware is home to over 128 of our employees - all dedicated to leading disruption and innovation in our industry and the markets we support. Our teams are agile, testing new methodologies and processes, all while engaging our customers, users and partners to learn, test and refine concepts. Air Liquide's innovation campus in Delaware hosts 5 laboratories backed by our scientific and technological expertise.Presentation of the team and business activitiesThe Data Science team is part of the R&D Industrial Performance group, which aims to maximize operational excellence in production and supply chain by optimizing safety, efficiency, flexibility and reliability. The Data Science team counts 11 full-time employees and 1 PhD intern (representing 10 countries and speaking 19 languages in total), with backgrounds in data science, machine learning & deep learning, operations research, energy research, chemical engineering, and economics (14 different majors). The team conducts innovative research and delivers impactful solutions across customer experience, marketing, supply chain management, decarbonization, and strategic planning.Mission Summary:The researcher will have the opportunity to work on challenging problems focusing on customers andoperations.The researcher will also interact with multi-disciplinary teams composed of Business, IT and Digitalresources that define operating models, and build digital solutions.You will contribute to this mission by● Collaborate with the business and operations teams to define needs and challenges, translate them intofunctional specifications, and develop solutions to address them.● Work with Digital & IT and business teams to obtain online/offline data. Clean, and analyze the data.● Develop solutions relying on machine learning methods such as clustering, regression, classification,time series and deep learning.● Test and verify the performance of solutions with prototypes developed in Python, or similar● development environments.● Support the development of industrial tools and their deployment in the business units.● Ensure knowledge sharing, thus ensuring sustainability of the solutions for Air Liquide.● Publish research in internal reports, at conferences and peer-reviewed journals.Why Join Us?You will be able to learn more about a variety of business lines (Industrial Merchant, Large Industries, Global Markets & Technologies, etc) of Air Liquide. You will leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve operational performance of production units and supply chains, optimize customer journey, enhance business return, and lower carbon footprint.__Are you a MATCH? Education:● Master’s or PhD Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics or related fieldSoft and Hard Skills:● A strong background and experience in statistics and machine learning● Strong programming skills in Python● Ability to write production level, modular code● Demonstrates strong process and operational safety behavior at all times● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (written and oral).● Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary and international team.● Willing to work in an agile development and problem-solving environment● Team player and autonomous● Preferred: Experience in AWS, Azure, and SQL● Preferred: Experience in project management, leading a projectLanguages:● English fluency is Must havePlease send your CV and motivation letter in English!Position based in Newark, USA country for an initial period of xx months, (extendable once).Position open only for candidates eligible to the VIE program. Therefore, only the applicants meeting the requirements of the French V.I.E program will be taken into consideration. Please visit this website for moreinformation about these requirements:https://mon-vie-via.businessfrance.fr/en/what-is-the-vie-french-international-internship-programThe V.I.E., an international young graduate program, enables young professionals who are less than 28 and European Union nationals to work for a French company in any country of the world. Becoming part of this program means going abroad to carry out a professional assignment for up to 24 months whilst benefiting from social care coverage and an interesting salary, which depends on the host country. Business France, the French agency for international business development, is in charge of all the administrativeprocedures of your assignment. For further information, please visit the following link:https://mon-vie-via.businessfrance.fr/enOur Differences make our PerformanceAt Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.