Product Innovation & AI Prototyping Internship – Philips Avent Experience Innovation

Job Title

Job Description

Start Date: flexible Q3/Q4 2026

Duration: at least / 6 months

Type: Internship (non-thesis)

Weekly Presence: 40h (minimum 32h)

Location: Eindhoven

Mentor: Coen Claassen

Product Innovation & AI Prototyping Internship – Philips Avent Experience Innovation

Do you enjoy turning early ideas into products, prototypes and experiences that people can see, understand and test?

Within Philips Avent Experience Innovation, we explore new product and experience directions that can make a meaningful difference for parents and babies. We work where consumer needs, design and technology come together.

We are looking for a curious, hands-on product innovator with both a strong product perspective and technical curiosity. You do not need to be an expert in every discipline; we are looking for someone who learns quickly, asks sharp questions and enjoys making ideas tangible.

Your role

You will join a multidisciplinary team of designers, researchers, scientists and technologists. Your work may span new physical products, connected experiences and early technology explorations.

You will:

• Explore new product and experience opportunities for parents and babies.
• Turn insights and ideas into product concepts, prototypes, mock-ups and visualisations.
• Work with designers and engineers to understand feasibility, product mechanisms, materials and user experience.
• Use a mix of sketching, CAD, physical prototyping and digital tools to make ideas tangible.
• Help create clear presentations and stories that support innovation decisions.
• Use AI-supported tools to create concept visualisations, animations or short videos where they help bring an idea to life.

AI-supported video creation is part of the role, but not its sole focus. It is one of the tools you may use to make a new product or experience understandable and compelling.

You are the right fit if

• You are studying Industrial Design, Integrated Product Design, Mechanical Engineering with a design affinity, Design Engineering, or a comparable programme.
• You are interested in both how products are experienced and how they work.
• You enjoy working on open-ended challenges and moving between thinking and making.
• You are curious, proactive and able to communicate your ideas clearly.
• You have experience with some relevant tools, such as sketching, CAD, prototyping, rendering, Adobe tools, Figma, video/animation tools or AI-supported creative tools.

Please include a portfolio or examples that show how you think and make. This could be a product, prototype, technical exploration, system concept or other project that demonstrates your curiosity and problem-solving approach.

What you can expect

You will contribute to real innovation work for Philips Avent and collaborate with experienced professionals across design, research, science and technology. You will receive coaching throughout your internship and gain experience in how early ideas are translated into future products and experiences for parents and babies.

If you are excited to combine product thinking, technical curiosity and creative prototyping, we would love to hear from you.

Does this sound like you?

Apply now and share your resume together with a portfolio, videos, animations or other self-made work that shows your creativity, technical curiosity and ability to make ideas tangible.

Graduation: We prefer this to be a regular 6-month internship. A graduation assignment is possible, but only if it can be clearly connected to our innovation projects and leaves enough time to contribute broadly to other team activities.

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.

This is an onsite role.

We offer you:
A non-stop growth opportunity within a global multinational company. In addition, we also want to renumerate 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 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 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 max. €192,- net as a monthly allowance.
• Paid holidays per internship term.
• The opportunity to buy Philips products at our Philips shop.

About Philips

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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here.

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