Description du poste
About the job
For over 100 years, Danone has been supporting people worldwide with its 146 delicious brands.
Located in over 120 countries with more than 89,000 employees across production sites, warehouses, headquarters, and R&D centers, Danone continually develops iconic products.
Certified as Bcorp and Happy Trainees, Danone strives to be a better company for the world, its consumers, and its employees.
B Corp certified, Danone France does not seek to be the best company in the world, but better for the world! This certification allows us to challenge ourselves in order to continuously improve and measure our social and environmental performance.
YOUR MISSIONS AT DANONE:
This internship will take place in Paris Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, at our R&I center starting from October 2026.
Tutor's Emmanuelle Nichelson, milk and dairy ingredient scientist in the team Advanced Technology will guide tour through your day to day tasks and help you grow in your role:
Conduct trials to test dairy ingredients into various dairy matrices, at laboratory micro-pilot or pilot scales.
Analyze the composition of the dairy ingredients and characterize the properties of the resulting dairy applications.
Set up tests to evaluate the technological functionalities of the dairy ingredients.
Collect, organize, and analyze experimental data to establish links between the composition of the ingredients and their functionalities.
Prepare clear, structured, and concise reports to present the results of the work carried out.
Contribute to enriching the dairy ingredient database by integrating the newly generated data.
Provide occasional support to other team projects as needed.
THE BENEFITS OF THIS INTERNSHIP:
Up to 2 days/week of remote work
Full reimbursement of Navigo pass/TCL subscription
"Vendredi je grandis" program: development every Friday afternoon covering career, soft skills, and hard skills.
INTERNSHIP : Compensation from €1,300 (Bachelor's +4 and gap year) to €1,500 (Bachelor's +5) gross/month.
Benefits: company restaurant, gym, bike parking
About you
To achieve great things together, we are looking for someone:
Available from October 2026 for a duration of 6 months
At the level of Bac+5 in university or engineering school, with a specialty in food science
With French and basic English skills to interact with team members
You are organized, curious and rigorous
Comfortable with laboratory and technical equipment, you have an appetite for laboratory work and micro-scale pilot testing
You enjoy applied research, seeking to understand underlying biochemical mechanisms and establishing links between ingredient composition and technological functionality
You enjoy working in a laboratory and micro-pilot testing environment and interacting with different departments!
Criteria above remain indicative.
We are proud to promote diversity and equal opportunity within our teams.
We believe that our differences will make a difference, and that an inclusive work environment will drive our growth as a company, as a team, and as individuals.
We will therefore consider all applications* by fostering an inclusive work culture where everyone can feel at home.
We have also chosen to remove inclusive writing from our job offers because its complexity penalizes people with cognitive disabilities, including dyslexia, dysphasia, or apraxia.
*All nominations will be considered regardless of origin, background, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability…
About us
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