Senior Scientist - Sleep & Respiratory Care

Job Description

Looking at the challenges the world is facing today, Philips’ purpose has never been more relevant. So, whatever your role, if you share our passion for helping others, you’ll be working towards creating a better and fairer future for all.

As a Senior Scientist, you will be involved in meaningful innovations while supporting our Sleep & Respiratory Care business. You will take part in research projects that address challenges for Sleep & Respiratory therapeutic solutions and in this way create impact for our business.

Your role:

• You will be part of our Sleep & Respiratory Care division based in Eindhoven and work with multi-disciplinary global teams on projects that focus on innovations for our Sleep & Respiratory Care product portfolio.
• You will have the opportunity to test and evaluate our solutions in a laboratory setting, showing feasibility and proof of principle.
• You will build research set-ups and perform measurements in the area of sleep and respiratory care.
• You will assist and drive data analysis in coordination with other team members and data scientists.
• This flexible role offers you the opportunity to work with international teams, while benefiting from a hybrid working model, spending at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home.

You're the right fit if:

• You hold a Master’s or PhD degree in biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, or an equivalent relevant engineering degree.
• You have experience or affinity with research in the field of Respiratory Physiology & Therapy and/or Sleep Medicine.
• You have at least 5-8 years of experience in an industrial research environment.
• You have experience and interest in mathematical modeling of mechanical systems (respiratory mechanics) or equivalent.
• You have experience and interest in carrying out lab measurements and processing and analysing measured data.
• You have experience with MATLAB, Simulink, or Python.
• You have experience with CFD tools such as STAR-CCM+ and ANSYS Fluent; this is desirable.
• You are able to multi-task and can work independently as well as part of a team.
• You have a hands-on attitude, show initiative to improve projects, and are able to drive and manage them.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve.

If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, you may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips.