Summer Student 2027 - Maritime Regulatory Affairs

About us

We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence.

As a trusted voice for many of the world’s most successful organizations, we use our knowledge to advance safety and performance, set industry benchmarks, and inspire and invent solutions to tackle global transformations.

About Maritime
We help enhance the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of our customers in the global shipping industry, covering all vessel types and mobile offshore units. As a partner to industry, we offer services in testing, certification, training, and technical advisory through the energy value chain. That means we’re continually investing heavily into R&D for new services and solutions while proactively assessing what the industry needs today and tomorrow.

About the role

Regulatory Affairs plays a vital role for DNV Maritime and its customers in a period of rapid change and increasing regulatory complexity. We monitor international regulations and standards in organisations such as IMO, ILO, the EU and IACS contribute to their development, and share regulatory insight internally and externally.

We are now looking for students who are ready to start their journey with us in the summer 2027.

What will you work on:

You will support Regulatory Affairs in transforming regulatory developments into clear, customer-relevant compliance insights. You will also investigate how regulatory information and policy updates can be structured to better support AI-enabled processes.

Future maritime regulation insights

• Reviewing and improving the information structure and how regulatory developments are monitored.
• Mapping developments to relevant ship segments.
• Exploring how developments can be translated into customer-facing information through tools such as Compliance Planner

AI for Regulatory Affairs

• Testing AI-assisted approaches for summarising, categorising and analysing regulatory information.
• Evaluating strengths and limitations and developing prompts and workflows for recurring tasks.
• Investigating how policy updates can be structured to better support AI-enabled processes.

The areas of deeper exploration:

The work above can be applied to one or both of the following regulatory areas, depending on your background and interests:

The future of green shipping

• Following developments related to IMO and EU climate and environmental policies.
• Comparing international and European approaches, identifying upcoming milestones and assessing implications for different stakeholders and ship segments.
• Translating developments into briefing materials and presentations through digital and AI-enabled workflows.

Digital shipping

• Following developments related to autonomous shipping, maritime cyber security and facilitation.
• Identifying emerging trends and regulatory gaps and assessing implications for DNV and the maritime industry.
• Translating developments into briefing materials and presentations through digital and AI-enabled workflows.

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What we offer

About you

• Valuable, real-life experience through meaningful work in Regulatory Affairs.
• Access to knowledge and expertise across many maritime and technical disciplines.
• The opportunity to explore environmental or digital regulation in depth and apply AI-enabled methods to a real maritime business case.
• A professional network, established young-professional networks and informal events.
• A workplace in beautiful surroundings by the sea, with gym facilities, activity groups, free parking and shuttle buses to and from Skøyen, Lysaker and Sandvika.

DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity.

Who are we looking for?

• A motivated and curious student with an interest in the maritime industry, regulations, sustainability or digitalisation, and a strong interest in exploring how digital tools and AI can create value in practice.
• A proactive and collaborative team player with the ability to work independently and take initiative when needed.
• The ability to analyse complex information and communicate it clearly in both written and spoken English.
• Relevant studies in maritime policy, law, engineering, sustainability, economics, data science, artificial intelligence or a related field.

We are primarily seeking students in the third or fourth year of a relevant Bachelor’s or Master’s programme.

Interested? How to apply:

To be considered for this role, please register your CV, application letter and grade transcripts electronically in our application tracking system. All documents should be in English. If you apply for more than one role in DNV, please state your preference in the application letter.

Application deadline: 16 October 2026 at 23:59

Any questions? Please contact Georgios Kasimatis, Director of Regulatory Affairs, on +47 967 12 220.

Security and compliance with statutory requirements in the countries in which we operate is essential for DNV. Background checks will be conducted on all final candidates as part of the offer process, in accordance with applicable country-specific laws and practices..