Internship Development acceleration of IOT devices by using Zephyr

Start date: January 2026

Duration: 6 months, longer is possible

Type: Thesis and non-thesis internship is possible

You will be part of the connectivity group and working together with people from other groups in the Electronic Systems & IoT department. The Electronic Systems & IoT department is part of Philips Engineering Solutions and located on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven (the Netherlands).

In this role, you will implement or port existing Cloud use-cases (such as provisioning, data upload/download, and FOTA) using HTTP/TLS/TCP protocols on Zephyr capable hardware. Once functional, the effort to move the code over to different hardware will be benchmarked compared to our existing dedicated solutions. The assignment can be adapted towards a graduate or internship project.

You are responsible for:

• Defining a set of use-cases for this benchmark.
• Defining the initial Zephyr capable hardware setup.
• Defining a set of Zephyr capable boards to be used for the porting benchmark.
• Implementation of the Cloud use-case (data upload/download over TLS, provisioning).
• Defining the metric to be used for the benchmark (development time, re-use of code, test impact).
• Porting the code to the selected Zephyr capable boards.
• Benchmarking to determine maturity and opportunities to accelerate IoT implementations with Zephyr.

During the interview process, you will be asked to demonstrate your own built Zephyr application. This can be a very basic application (minimally a Zephyr example with minimal changes) running on hardware of your choice. This could be a notebook or any other self-selected platform.

You're the right fit if:

• You are studying towards your Master in Electrical Engineering, Software, Embedded Systems Engineering or related studies.
• Familiar with programming on embedded devices.
• Motivated to learn developing applications with Zephyr.
• Familiar with IP based protocols (HTTP/TCP/TLS).
• Affinity for working with Cloud technology.
• Affinity for courses on the subject of connectivity/IoT.
• Able to work in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Fluent in English.
• Affinity for both theoretical and practical work.

In return, we offer you:

A non-stop growth opportunity within a global multinational company. In addition, we also want to remunerate you well for the opportunity. This includes:

• 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 near our office, we’ll offer you a monthly allowance of €300 net if the location is in the vicinity of Amsterdam, or €255 net for all other Philips locations. To be eligible, we’ll just 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 up to €192 net as a monthly allowance.
• Paid holidays per internship term.

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