Job Title
Intern – Robotics (Image Guided Therapy) – Cambridge, MA – Summer 2021
Are you interested in an Internship opportunity with Philips? We welcome individuals who are currently pursuing (or have recently completed) an undergraduate (BS) and/or graduate (MS) degree to participate in 3-6-month paid opportunities at our sites across the US. Through these roles, you will gain meaningful, hands-on experience working for a Health-Tech company.
In this role, you have the opportunity to:
Create new technologies to solve real-world challenges in the areas of medical image analysis, artificial intelligence, machine/deep learning, and image guided therapy. We are looking for someone who is highly motivated and passionate, a fast learner, can make strong individual contributions in a team effort, and is detail-oriented in executing, validating and documenting their research. The internship should start in the early summer with a duration of 3 to 6 months.
You are responsible for
- Creating new technical prototypes that solve real-world challenges in image-guided interventions.
- Working collaboratively with a team to experiment and validate the utility of such prototypes.
- Building low-latency software applications that run on real-time imaging systems powered by the latest ML/AI tools.
You are a part of
A leading research team with extensive experience in creating new image-guided therapy solutions. Our team is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but we also work closely with Philips Research labs in Europe and with clinical collaborators at world-renown research hospitals around the US.
To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience
- Experience working independently on a challenging technical research project
- Work collaboratively with a team of scientists, and enjoy hands-on experimentation
- Experience with medical image analysis (image processing/computer vision), image registration with focus on ML/AI
- Experience in Python, including libraries such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, and Keras
- Experience with C++, C#, or Matlab are a plus
In return, we offer you
The ability to collaborate with, learn and grow from colleagues in a highly complex, global organization where you can use your strengths to help drive strategic business initiatives for Philips. Additionally, we provide you a dynamic working environment in an innovative business, paired with a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and a supportive atmosphere where you can sharpen your talents with new challenges and career opportunities.
US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa.
Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. Candidates need to live within the territory or within commuting distance to Cambridge, MA.
Why should you join Philips?
Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on improving 3 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways.
To find out more about what it’s like working for Philips at a personal level, visit the Working at Philips page on our career website, where you can read stories from our employee blog. Once there, you can also learn about our recruitment process, or find answers to some of the frequently asked questions.
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Over 125 years ago, Frederik and Gerard Philips started a small light bulb company in Eindhoven.
Little did they realize that it would become a global force of innovation, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide. But it did.
Today, Philips is a world leading health technology company with a vision to make life better for people worldwide through meaningful innovation. Making good on this promise depends on our passionate, inspirational, collaborative and diverse team.
We have over 80,000+ brilliant people around the world but are always looking for more. Like-minded, motivated, focused minds to join us in creating a healthier, more connected society while tranforming themselves personally and professionally.
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