Internship Clinical Development

Start date: flexible

Duration: at least 6 months

This internship is suitable for a thesis.

Your role:

Integrated Technology Solutions (ITS) is a business of Intellectual Property & Standards. ITS focuses on health and wellbeing monitoring with wearable and camera technology. Specifically, ITS develops algorithms to extract vital signs and health insights from PPG, EDA and remote PPG (camera) measurements. Before the algorithms can be developed, it is important to execute clinical research to ensure the correct use of the algorithms. Therefore, you will help us with literature research, gather valuable information regarding the latest findings, and develop clinical studies together with the Clinical Affairs team of ITS.

• Familiarize yourself with the topic and gain knowledge of state-of-the-art literature
• Familiarize yourself with the measurement technique(s)
• Draft and execute (clinical/technical) studies together with the Clinical Affairs team
• Perform data analysis with the Clinical Affairs team
• Draft a study report with the Clinical Affairs team
• Write your thesis and prepare a final presentation
• Weekly interaction with supervisor, tight feedback loop including presentation of intermediate results
• Potentially contribute to a publication

You're the right fit if:

• You are a student in biomedical engineering, personalized medicine, biomedical technology, data science / life sciences
• You have knowledge of vital signs physiology
• You have very good presentation and visualization skills
• Programming/statistics skills (R studio) are a plus
• You are proficient in the English language
• You take ownership and responsibility
• You want to be part of a highly skilled and enthusiastic team

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.

• Monthly full-time allowance between €500 - €700 gross, depending on educational level. If you perform a part-time internship, you will receive the allowance pro-rata.
• Housing compensation in case of relocating to the vicinity of the office: €300 net if location is in the vicinity of Amsterdam, €255 net for all other Philips locations. You need to provide a rental contract of the landlord, and your normal home-work travel distance needs to be more than 50 km or travel time (one way trip) needs to be more than 1.5 hours.
• Travel compensation, if you are not eligible for a free public transport card; you will receive max. €192 net
• Paid holidays per internship term
• The opportunity to buy Philips equipment at our Philips shop

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. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.