AI Foundry Lead

Philips is seeking an experienced AI Foundry Lead to join the Frontier AI foundRy team (FAIR) within the Data & AI Engineering organization. This role involves leading exploratory sprints, co-developing proofs-of-concept with Philips Business Units, and building AI capabilities for next-generation intelligent products and services. The lead will act as a solution architect, technical lead, and hands-on individual contributor, leveraging the latest AI technologies, cloud services, and agentic frameworks to translate frontier ideas into scalable engineering solutions.

Must Have

• Lead and architect advanced AI capabilities from concept to implementation within the AI Foundry.
• Design, prototype, and scale AI systems leveraging cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern agentic frameworks.
• Translate stakeholder needs into clear, actionable technical work packages and execution plans.
• Partner with BUs, Markets, and Functions to identify high-impact use cases and accelerate AI adoption.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple initiatives, balancing experimentation, engineering rigor, and speed.
• Stay ahead of emerging AI, GenAI, and cloud trends to guide strategic technology decisions and inspire the team.
• Support co-creation of reusable capabilities and contribute to Philips’ AI engineering standards and lifecycle practices.
• Foster a culture of innovation, autonomy, and shared ownership.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or AI system design.
• Proven experience architecting and implementing cloud-based AI solutions (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong knowledge of AI frameworks, large language model integration, and AI agent orchestration.
• Solid understanding of microservices, API-based integration, and MLOps / LLMOps practices.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to drive complex, cross-functional initiatives with limited oversight.

Good to Have

• Experience with healthcare-grade AI solutions or regulated product development.
• Familiarity with hyperscaler AI services (e.g., AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, GCP Vertex AI).
• Experience leading hackathons, innovation sprints, or internal accelerators.
• Understanding of AI lifecycle management and enterprise AI governance frameworks.
• Business Acumen
• Continuous Improvement
• Requirements Gathering

Job Title

AI Foundry Lead

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced and hands-on AI Foundry Lead (Technical Lead) to join our Frontier AI foundRy team (FAIR), responsible for running exploratory sprints, co-developing proofs-of-concept with Philips Business Units (BUs), and building the AI capabilities that power Philips’ next generation of intelligent products and services, within Philips Data & AI Engineering organization, part of the global Innovation & Design (I&D) function.

You will act as both a solution architect and technical lead, while also being a hands-on individual contributor who needs to;

• Leverage the latest AI technologies, cloud services, and agentic frameworks to turn frontier ideas into scalable engineering solutions
• Be bridging business needs and technical design, translating complex technical challenges into elegant business context
• Be the jack of all trades as per need, as architech, as technical lead or as developer.

Your role:

• Lead and architect advanced AI capabilities from concept to implementation within the AI Foundry.
• Design, prototype, and scale AI systems leveraging cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern agentic frameworks.
• Translate stakeholder needs into clear, actionable technical work packages and execution plans.
• Partner with BUs, Markets, and Functions to identify high-impact use cases and accelerate AI adoption.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple initiatives — balancing experimentation, engineering rigor, and speed.
• Stay ahead of emerging AI, GenAI, and cloud trends to guide strategic technology decisions and inspire the team.
• Support co-creation of reusable capabilities and contribute to Philips’ AI engineering standards and lifecycle practices.
• Foster a culture of innovation, autonomy, and shared ownership — empowering team members to define how to achieve collective goals.

You’re the right fit if:

• You are a self-starter with strong ownership, able to operate from idea conception to working prototypes and production-scale systems.
• You enjoy bridging business needs and technical design, translating complex challenges into elegant engineering solutions.
• You thrive in a collaborative, fast-moving environment where experimentation and learning are core values.
• You have a deep curiosity for emerging AI technologies, cloud-native AI architectures, and multi-agent systems.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or AI system design.
• Proven experience architecting and implementing cloud-based AI solutions (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong knowledge of AI frameworks, large language model integration, and AI agent orchestration.
• Solid understanding of microservices, API-based integration, and MLOps / LLMOps practices.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to work effectively across technical and business domains.
• Demonstrated ability to drive complex, cross-functional initiatives with limited oversight.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with healthcare-grade AI solutions or regulated product development (a strong plus).
• Familiarity with hyperscaler AI services (e.g., AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, GCP Vertex AI).
• Experience leading hackathons, innovation sprints, or internal accelerators.
• Understanding of AI lifecycle management and enterprise AI governance frameworks.

Preferred Skills:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Scripting & Automation
• AI Algorithm Development
• Business Acumen
• Continuous Improvement
• Requirements Gathering
• API Integration

Focus Split

• Implementation / Hands-on Engineering: 30%
• Architecture , Design, Thought Leadership: 35%
• Stakeholder Management, Technical Leadership, Communication: 35%

How we work together

This is an office based role and for our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

About Philips

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• Learn more about our purpose.

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 culture of impact with care here.

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At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life.

For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health.

Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success.

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