Intern AI Application Developer

The Healthcare Consultancy Service team at Philips helps healthcare organizations improve care delivery through operational planning, digital transformation, and healthcare technology solutions. As an AI Application Intern, you contribute to this mission by building deployable AI-powered apps and agents that can be used directly by business teams across the organization. The role focuses on turning AI capabilities into practical, user-friendly tools. Working within a global consultancy environment, you bridge advanced AI technology and real business needs, with a clear emphasis on usability, reliability, and concrete delivery.

Your Role

Key Responsibilities

Must have: App & AI Agent Development

• Build Deployable Apps & Agents: Build and deploy AI-powered apps and agents that address real business use cases — combining practical software development, API integration, data handling, and UI/web interfaces.
• Design for Non-Technical Users: Ensure the tools you build are accessible and usable by non-technical colleagues — with clean interfaces, simple inputs, and outputs that are immediately actionable without requiring technical knowledge.
• AI-Assisted Software Development: Integrate LLM APIs and AI development tools to power your apps — applying prompt engineering, output validation, and data handling to build reliable solutions that work consistently in the hands of non-technical colleagues.

Good to have: Agentic AI & Advanced Integration

• Design Agentic Systems: Experience with agentic AI frameworks such as LangChain, CrewAI, or similar is a plus — especially if you have used them to build task-handling or multi-step agents.
• Inter-Agent Communication & MCP: Implement agent-to-agent communication patterns, tool-calling mechanisms, and modular integrations utilizing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to securely connect LLMs with external data pipelines and application tools.
• Orchestration & Control: Familiarity with prompt optimization, structured output control, and working with cloud LLM providers (e.g., Azure OpenAI) is helpful for building robust, consistent agent behavior.
• Evaluation & Guardrails: Understanding of evaluation methods and safety guardrails (e.g., human-in-the-loop checks) is valuable to ensure the apps you build behave reliably when used independently by non-technical colleagues.

You're the Right Fit If:

• Education: You are studying towards your University Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Sciences, AI/Robotics, or Software Engineering.
• AI & Software Integration: You have practical experience building AI-powered applications, including prompt design, output validation, and working with LLM APIs. Experience with RAG or agentic frameworks is a plus, but not required.
• Software Engineering Toolkit: Highly proficient in Python (and/or C#, Java). Comfortable working with APIs, backend systems, web frameworks, and cloud environments.
• Data Foundations: Experience working with databases (Python, SQL) and data manipulation/visualization tools (Excel, PowerBI).
• Production Mindset: You care about building things that non-technical users can actually pick up and use. You think about reliability, simplicity, and delivering something pilotable within the internship period — not just a proof of concept.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

We offer you:

• Monthly full-time allowance between €500 - €700 gross, depending on your education level and if you need to relocate to The Netherlands. Part-time internships receive the allowance pro-rata.
• Housing compensation. Should you need to relocate to near our office, we’ll offer you a monthly allowance of €300 net if location is in the vicinity of Amsterdam, €255 net for all other Philips locations. To be eligible, we’ll ask for the rental contract from your landlord, and your usual home-work travel distance needs to be more than 50 km or 1.5 hours of travel time for a one way trip.
• Travel compensation, if you are not eligible for a free public transport card; you will receive max. €192 net as a monthly allowance.
• Paid holidays per internship term.
• The opportunity to buy Philips products at our Philips shop.

About Philips

Philips is a health technology company built around the belief that every human matters, with a focus on expanding access to quality healthcare.