touch lives every day
At Philips, we believe technology can be advanced and simple at the same time. Designed around the way you live and work. Technology that makes sense. This is how we touch people's lives all over the world. Through our 3D Ultrasound technology that gives a mother the first glimpse of her unborn child or our Ambilight Flat TV’s that provide a unique and immersive cinematic experience. You can be part of that. At Philips, you'll touch lives every day.
The Wide World of Philips
We are geared to delivering sustainable profitability in key areas in people’s lives: healthcare, lifestyle and technology.
More than 125,000 Philips people in over 100 countries work together to create and sell new products and technologies. They brainstorm, research and develop. They build, market and service.
We have pioneered major breakthroughs, for instance in lighting, television, optical technology and medical imaging. We will continue to use our understanding of how people experience technology to deliver innovations that improve their lives.
We have pioneered major breakthroughs
This is why we are the global leader in digital technologies for television and displays, lighting, electric shavers, medical diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring. We place great value on protecting our innovations through intellectual property rights (IPRs), which include over 80,000 patents. We are proud to have been ranked by Dow Jones as the global leader in sustainability in the cyclical goods market. We also have over 30 partnerships with many other leading-edge companies like Sara Lee, Yahoo and Inbev.
Back to topOur Heritage
Innovation has always been the soul of our company, ever since our beginnings in 1891. Take a trip through time and witness the unfolding of our rich technological history using our interactive timeline (500k, requires that you have Flash installed).
Challenges and Opportunities
Given the large and diverse nature of our business, we can offer opportunities to ambitious people in a wide range of areas and at different levels. What we, at Philips, all have in common is our commitment. You’ll need to be energetic and action-oriented, with a passion for your work and for getting things done. Communication skills are absolutely essential for all roles in our organization. You’ll also need the right mindset for an international business, with aspirations to work in global teams.
We offer you learning and development programs and challenging assignments to accelerate your opportunities for personal and professional growth. You’ll be able to look forward to special courses, creative challenges – and will enjoy equal opportunities for advancement across the business. As soon as you start, you’ll benefit from our In Touch program, which will give you a comprehensive induction into the business. Throughout your time with us, you’ll get the chance to work in a stimulating, energetic, diverse and innovative environment filled with some of the most talented people in the world. They touch the lives of people all over the globe. If you possess the skills and qualities needed to join us, then you too will be able to experience what it’s like to touch lives every day.
To learn more about Philips and everything we have to offer for your career, as well as the specific vacancies we currently have available, please visit www.philips.com/careers
Businesses and Divisions
In a world where technology increasingly touches every aspect of our daily lives, we will be a leading solutions provider in the areas of healthcare, lifestyle and enabling technology, aspiring to become the most admired company in our industry as seen by our stakeholders. These areas are the focus for all our businesses: Medical Systems, Consumer Electronics, Domestic Appliances and Personal Care, Lighting. They are backed up, in turn, by Design, by Research, and by all our supporting departments. Together, we all act as one company.
Medical Systems
A leader in Healthcare, Philips Medical Systems is one of the world’s top three medical device companies. Our mission is to improve the quality of people’s lives.
Our focus areas include imaging systems, customer services, information and monitoring systems. We enjoy a number one position in several of these including X-ray, cardiovascular ultrasound, patient monitoring and automatic external defibrillators. Our HeartStart Home Defibrillator brings life-saving technology to consumers in their own homes, where the majority of sudden cardiac arrests occur. It’s just one of the many ways we deliver ‘advanced’ technology that is ‘designed around you’ and ‘easy to experience’.
Domestic Appliances and Personal Care
Philips DAP believes that even life’s most ‘ordinary’ moments can be special. Our 8,000+ employees in DAP work to create household and personal care devices that imaginatively combine innovative technology with a thorough understanding of what people want. Our goal is to help fulfil three fundamental desires – to feel good, look good and live in comfort – with easy-to-use products that go beyond superb performance to add an extra dimension to life.
Our Cool Skin shaver, Sonicare electric toothbrush and Senseo coffee machine are prime examples. Building on decades of expertise (and millions of appliances sold), we’ve transformed everyday moments into rich, enjoyable experiences.
Consumer Electronics
Consumer Electronics helps realize Philips’ focus on Lifestyle through enhancing people’s lives by giving them simple access to content, information and services, anytime and anywhere.
We do this through products like our Ambilight TV that enriches the viewing experience, and our GoGear Jukebox, an intuitively easy device that can automatically select music to match your mood.
With over 19,000 employees, Consumer Electronics is a global leader in Connected Displays, Home Entertainment Networks and Mobile Infotainment. Constantly innovating, we introduce hundreds of new products every year. And we sell more than five consumer electronics products to consumers worldwide, every second.
Lighting
For Philips, improving lives with light goes back to our founding fathers in 1891. At Philips Lighting, we carry this tradition forward, across all three domains: Healthcare, Lifestyle and Technology.
Through a huge array of products, and variety in design, intensity, color and effects, we help make life easier and more efficient. From lighting for interiors and offices to Olympic Stadiums and the Eiffel Tower, we beautify people’s homes and public spaces and enhance safety and a sense of well-being.
Light can provide heat, purify water, treat disease, increase road safety – even play a role in semiconductor manufacturing – and we’re active in them all.
Design
Philips Design’s 450 professionals share one mission: to create a harmonious relationship between people, objects and the environment, both natural and man-made. Our visionary approach – enriching design with human sciences, user research and a constant, clear people focus – allows us to shape technology in a way that answers people’s existing and latent needs.
We help make Philips’ brand promise tangible through solutions that fit naturally into the context of people’s lives in meaningful ways. And in line with this, we play a leading role in many international consortia and public research programs in the fields of Healthcare, Lifestyle and Technology.
Research
Philips Research is the source of many advanced developments in Healthcare, Lifestyle and Technology. Building on 90 years’ experience in industrial research and our world-leading patent position, we’re dedicated to meaningful innovations.
In the healthcare domain, we are enhancing imaging and monitoring systems, as well as exploring innovative personal healthcare. In lifestyle, we’re helping people see, hear, remember and share content, anywhere and anytime. Our vision focuses on simplicity, making technology an integral – but invisible – part of everyday life.
Enabling all this, we investigate fundamental technologies in IC design, solid-state lighting, network and storage technologies, identification and security standards, displays and power management.
Intellectual Property & Standards
To safeguard an appropriate return on investment made in R&D, Philips places great value in protecting its innovations through intellectual property rights (IPRs). The company currently holds about 80,000 patent rights, 26,000 trademark registrations, 15,000 design registrations, some 1,600 domain name registrations. All these Philips IPRs are created and managed by Philips Intellectual Property & Standards, which has some 300 IPR professionals located in twenty-five offices around the world.