Inria Saclay Centre

Created in 2008, the Inria Saclay Center is located at the heart of the Paris-Saclay scientific and technological excellence cluster, which alone accounts for 15% of French research. Serving the development of the Université Paris-Saclay and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, the Inria Saclay center employs 80 people in research support services and 500 scientists of 54 nationalities.

Benefiting from continuous growth, the center now has a total of 40 project-teams and two in the process of being created, including 19 jointly with the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 16 with the Université Paris-Saclay, as well as 7 Inria EPs, including one in collaboration with Onera and one with the Pôle Universitaire Centre Val de Loire. These research teams are spread over more than ten sites.

Key figures

Research teams

European Research Council grants

Startups from project teams

Ambitious site policy

Scientific priority areas:

Favouring cutting-edge research and priority scientific and technological subjects, the Saclay center concentrates its efforts mainly on the following thematic areas:

Scientific computing and optimisation;
Operating systems
Digital biology and health;
AI and data science;
Cybersecurity, privacy, proof and verification;
Quantum computing;
Human-computer interaction.

Ecosystem & Partners

The Inria center at Saclay is a founding member of the Université Paris-Saclay and a member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Most of its project teams are shared with the following academic and industrial partners: École polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, Telecom Paris, Telecom SudParis, École nationale des ponts et chaussées, CentraleSupélec, ENS Paris-Saclay, CEA, INRAE, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Pôle Universitaire Centre Val de Loire, CNRS, ONERA, EDF, Criteo.

The centre also has many other partnerships:

Actors in public research: CNES, IFPEN, Inserm... ;
Innovation ecosystem: SystemX, Systematic, NanoInnov, DigiHall, DigiCosme... ;
Local authorities: Essonne Departmental Council, Paris-Saclay Agglomeration Community, Ile-de-France Region...;
Companies:
- SME-ETI: AdaCore, Distène, DataIku, Sysnav, Lemma, Tinyclues... ;
- Major companies: Airbus, Boeing, Dassault Systèmes, Fujitsu, Google, Microsoft, Orange, PSA, Renault, Safran, Thales, Sony, Total... ;
International academic partners: Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Newcastle University, Keio University, CWI...

Recruitment at the Inria Saclay centre

Scientists

Are you looking to work on stimulating projects in an international, interdisciplinary environment geared towards innovation? Every year Inria recruits interns, PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, research fellows and directors of research, either through competitive exams or through contracts.

Technological development

Inria offers a unique environment to talented candidates in the field of technological and software development. Research engineers play a vital role in ensuring high-quality production of knowledge and value by research teams.

Become an Inria engineer

Research support

Inria is able to call upon talented individuals in more than 40 different research support positions in pursuit of its ambitions for human resources, administrative support, financial management and communication, and is proud of the 900 individuals on its support staff for research and innovation: truly the backbone of the institute.