R&d Program Management Intern

**About Platform.sh**:
As a collective with diverse backgrounds, we work together to test, innovate, and challenge one another, finding new ways to reimagine digital experiences. We’re here to help our customers thrive.

Bring your experience to our team, and help us build a better way.

**Position Summary**:
As our R&D Program Management intern, you will be part of the Strategy Department, but will work closely with the product and engineering teams.

The duration of the internship is 6 months and the remuneration for this position is minimum** **€600/month. You must be under an internship agreement through university/school for the whole period of the internship.

As the internship is about innovation management, it is thus important to be interested in the current cloud technology trends and be willing to dig further to understand the technical underlyings and link it to the latest academic research. A strong appetite for science popularization would also be needed to contribute to public financing reports.

**What you can expect to do on a daily basis**:

- Follow the implementation of the roadmap by the product and engineering team, and analyze the impact on different research fields (energy efficiency, security, etc.)
- Write thematic reports on the above, and further documentation
- Participate in discussions and R&D projects on this topic, including customers, providers and third-party auditors, to advance this topic.

**What you bring**:

- Appetite for academic and applied research.
- Interest and understanding of computer science, reading and writing documentation.
- A caring mindframe and an empathetic spirit. The ability to think from other perspectives is a skill we ask from all Platformers.
- Professional **French & English** language capacity (verbal and written). Please share your **CV in English version.**:

- Ability to work autonomously

**Nice to have**:

- Interest and understanding of climate science.
- Appetite for data analysis and automation with programming languages such as SQL, python or javascript.

**What we bring as a team**:

- Be part of a company that cares deeply about the environment and that has strong values (and actions) towards inclusivity.

**Work from our offices in Paris, or at home**:
We’re a worldwide, distributed team looking for the best talent. Our remote model has been in practice and thriving since 2014. To us, remote work means flexibility and having truly diverse, global teams.

To maximize team collaboration with strategy and engineering teams, you would be expected to come to our Paris office.

**Company perks and benefits**:

- We’re voted as _A Best Place to Work_ by 96% of our employees, Forbes _Top 30 Companies for Remote Jobs_, and in France _Best Workplaces for Women._
- Hands on leadership that cares in a flexible, open work environment, where your voice is encouraged. We can always find ways to do better and look forward to hearing your ideas.
- A global team, rich with culture and diversity.
- Company-wide DE&I initiative that you can be a part of.
- Tandem - a pool of linguists from around the world willing to help each other work on learning new languages.
- Unlimited Platform.sh accounts.

**How we hire**:
We know that a great hire won’t meet every requirement that we’ve outlined. If you can see yourself elevating the team, we want to hear your story. Few of us would be here had we not taken a chance.

You can expect 2-3 interviews on Google Meet. You will have the opportunity to meet with a variety of Platformers throughout the interview process.

All roles require background checks.

**About our software**: