Intern - Industrial Design - Plymouth, MN - Summer 2026

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Intern - Industrial Design - Plymouth, MN - Summer 2026

Job Description

Intern - Industrial Design - Plymouth, MN (Greater Minneapolis) - Summer 2026

Are you interested in a summer internship with Philips Experience Design? Join us for a paid 3-month opportunity at Philips Image-Guided Therapy Devices, where we welcome ambitious Industrial Design students currently pursuing a degree (BID, BFA, BS). Based in Minnesota’s Medical Alley, the heart of health innovation and care, Philips IGTD offers an inspiring environment to advance your healthcare design career.

Your Role

As an Industrial Design intern, you will collaborate with our award-winning global design team to innovate medical devices for cath labs. By empathizing with interventional teams, you will transform their end-to-end workflow needs into visual storyboards, desirable product design concepts, and ergonomic 3D prototypes that prioritize patient safety. Your eagerness to learn will ensure you incorporate feedback from design reviews and align your deliverables with Philips Product Design Language principles. Areas of work:

• Human-Centered: Empathize with healthcare professionals to develop user personas and uncover unmet needs. Craft visual storyboards illustrating medical device interactions during clinical procedures. Participate in observational research and co-creation workshops to shape impactful healthcare design solutions.
• Design: Rapidly visualize concepts in weekly sketch sessions. Use Solidworks / Rhino for 3D modeling and Keyshot Network Rendering to develop high-quality visuals or animations. Create compelling design concept presentations and inspire with non-healthcare design trends. Apply Philips Product Design Language principles to drive consistency in form, color, and branding across our IGTD hardware portfolio.
• 3D Prototyping: Transform design concepts into detailed CAD models for low-to-high fidelity prototyping in our Experience Design Lab. Utilize Formlabs 3D printers to create physical mockups for both internal design reviews and external usability testing. Iterate and refine prototypes based on testing feedback, guiding the product design’s evolution.

You’re the right fit if:

• You are pursuing an Industrial Design degree (BID, BFA, BS) and are motivated to launch your healthcare design career in Minnesota’s Medical Alley.
• Only candidates with an Industrial Design portfolio will be considered for this position, please add your portfolio (website link or PDF document) to your application.
• You empathize with healthcare professionals and, as a clear communicator, transform insights into patient-safe design concepts.
• You thrive in collaborative settings, contributing to team sketching sessions and integrating design review feedback to align with Philips Product Design Language principles.
• You possess strong skills in 3D modeling and rendering, using digital tools like Solidworks / Rhino, and Keyshot to visualize concepts.
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.

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 office role.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.

• Learn more about our business.
• Discover our rich and exciting history.
• Learn more about our purpose.
• Learn more about our culture.

Philips Transparency Details

The hourly pay range for this position is $24.00 to $29.00, plus overtime eligible. The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.

Details about our benefits can be found here.

At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case.

Additional Information

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.

Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position.  For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Plymouth, MN**.

This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates.  Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.

About Us

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.

It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy/childbirth or related medical conditions, age, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran or military status, marital or domestic partner status or any other characteristic protected by law. As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to fostering a culture where all are treated with respect and professionalism.

To ensure reasonable accommodations for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974 and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.

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