Data Science Intern

The Data Science Team is SCOR’s center of expertise on advanced analytics topics, including Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing. It contributes to enhance SCOR’s data capabilities in order to help innovate processes such as underwriting or claims by creatively applying cutting edge Data Science techniques. 

Data Scientists are also involved in delivering solutions (survival analysis, interpretability, …) and spreading Data Science knowledge within the company. SCOR is working to bridge the protection gap, widening the limits as far as possible by offering new products and improved services. Meanwhile, the horizon of emerging risks is expanding, with a particular need to better understand the threat of climate change. Building resilience in this rapidly evolving landscape is our challenge, as well as our opportunity.

The position is based in Paris and it will have a duration up to 6 months. It can be either an Actuarial internship or a Data Science one. As the Data Science Team’s projects portfolio is regularly updated, the internship project will be discussed with the candidates during the interviews. 

The internship project themes will potentially involve survival modelling, model de-biasing, information extraction from documents, etc.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Prepare a report on state-of-the-art solutions and ideas concerning the chosen topic.
• Share knowledge on advanced topics with the team. Develop a proof-of-concept solution of the chosen problem.
• Participate in the industrialization of the proof of concept and familiarize with development
  skills (such as git, Python, code documentation, unit testing).
• If desired and depending on the project, interact with internal non-technical stakeholders.

Must have:

• Good programming skills & knowledge of common data science languages such as Python.
• Good knowledge of supervised/unsupervised machine learning techniques, Deep Learning
  with application to NLP is a plus.
• Good writing capabilities
• Fluency in English (International context and relationships with various entities of SCOR)
• Insurance industry experience is preferred, but not mandatory

As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying “The Art & Science of Risk,” SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.

Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.

As an international company, our common culture is defined by “The SCOR Way.” Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.