Function Development Engineer Job in Drachten, Netherlands

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is a diversified Health and Well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through timely innovations.

As a world leader in healthcare, lifestyle and lighting, Philips integrates technologies and design into people-centric solutions.

Function Development Engineer Job Description

As a Function Development Engineer you develop and validate innovative technical solutions to fulfill consumer or product function requirements.

Your responsibilities
You work in a team in close cooperation with both the product development team and the product researchers. You always safeguard our trusted values regarding functionality, design and simplicity.

As a Function Development Engineer you are also responsible for:

• Translating commercial, functional and design specifications into technical concepts;
• Developing and engineering appropriate modules;
• Safeguarding functionality, performance, quality, reliability and manufacturability of products;
• Planning, realizing and steering the function development;
• Finding and generating knowledge (extern and internal) in a recognized, specific domain relevant for the appliance development;
• Maintaining and increase level of knowledge in defined domain and making available in the departments in a way that is accessible for others;
• Influencing strategic decisions on appliance design based on his expert knowledge;
• Searching actively to new ways to improve and explore knowledge into his own knowledge domain;
• Generating necessary input for roadmap and strategy discussions;
• Delivering the architecture options together with the system Architect;
• Cooperating with colleagues and other departments and able to influence people and help build a team.

Function Development Engineer Job Requirements

We are looking for
First of all, you are creative and analytical. In addition, you are a team player and you have excellent coordination and communication skills.


We would like to meet you if you also meet the following criteria:

• You have a Master or Bachelor Degree in Material Science, Physics or Mechanical Engineering;
• You have minimum 3-5 years of experience in the field of (consumer) function development;
• You have a broad technical interest and are eager to learn and explore new fields;
• You are familiar with state-of-the-art development techniques;
• You show passion for (complex) technical puzzles, always working towards thorough understanding and knowledge build-up by determining theoretical or empirical modeling their working;
• You are quality driven and experience with Design for Six Sigma is a plus;
• The ability to balance innovation and practical realization;
• You have experience in translating modules and concepts into architectural options;
• You are pro-active and persistent in achieving goals and cross-functional improvements.

Function Development Engineer Application Information

Our Offer
We welcome you to a challenging, innovative environment with great opportunities for you to explore. Our benefits are very competitive and designed around your preferences:

• Depending on experience, a year salary (fulltime) between € 55.000 and € 70.000 (including personal benefits package)
• 25 Days of leave and the possibility to purchase up to 20 extra days off annually
• A variable bonus based on both Philips results and personal performance
• Extensive set of tools to drive your career, such as a personal development budget, free training and coaching
• Solid company pension scheme and attractive collective health insurance package
• Opportunity to buy Philips shares and products with discount
• Healthy work-life balance


Please apply with your CV and cover letter by the 'apply' button below. Please mention refrence code JB-11560

Function Development Engineer Summary