Internship: AI Agents Systems Quality Engineering

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Internship: AI Agents for Systems Quality Engineering

The Systems Quality Engineering (SysQE) team within Philips Innovation Engineering supports engineering teams in applying quality engineering methods in a regulated medical technology environment. This internship focuses on understanding, improving, and prototyping the full lifecycle of AI agents in Systems Quality Engineering — from idea and use‑case definition to prototype, evaluation, documentation, and potential reuse.

• Understand SysQE workflows and identify opportunities for AI agent support.
• Analyze existing or conceptual AI‑agent ideas and their underlying assumptions.
• Select practical use cases with clear value for Systems Quality Engineering.
• Design and implement simple agent prototypes or agent‑supported workflows to test different approaches.
• Evaluate agent behavior, usability, maintainability, reliability, source traceability, and integration aspects.
• Experiment with interaction, reuse, or orchestration between multiple agents, prompts, knowledge sources, or workflows.
• Collaborate with SysQE engineers and stakeholders to assess practical usefulness and gather real engineering insights.
• Document findings, design choices, patterns, limitations, and lessons learned.
• Propose and prototype new or improved agents based on the insights gained.

• Currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI, Data Science, Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field.
• Interest in AI agents, automation, applied software engineering, knowledge management, and engineering quality.
• Solid knowledge of statistics and experience with Python.
• Comfortable with experimentation, learning by doing, and working in an exploratory setting.
• Ability to translate complex information into practical solutions.
• Good communication skills and willingness to interact with engineers, quality specialists, and stakeholders.
• Self‑starter who can state opinions clearly and act decisively.
• Experience or interest in medical technology, quality engineering, systems engineering, risk management, or regulated product development is a plus.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, prompt engineering, or AI‑agent frameworks is a plus.

• Monthly full‑time allowance between €500 – €700 gross, depending on educational level and relocation to the Netherlands.
• Housing compensation: €300 net if located near Amsterdam; €255 net for other Philips locations.
• Travel compensation up to €192 net for those not eligible for a free public transport card.
• Paid holidays per internship term.
• Office‑based roles require in‑person presence at least 3 days per week at the company’s facilities.

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