Digital innovation projects for R&D units

Imec; Vlaams-Brabant; On-site; EUR 6,700 - 10,000; Full time

Job summary

Imec ICT department seeks a Master intern focused on digital innovation for R&D. You will help develop digital solutions, automation, and data processing for research units, including apps, Python scripting, data notebooks, and AI model training. Candidates must be self‑supporting students and possess a CS/IT background.

Reference code 2026-INT-030. Supervising scientists Wim Vancuyck and Jonathan Eeckhout available for inquiries.

Qualifications

• Master internship in Computer Science or IT.
• Self-supporting students only.
• Supervising scientist(s) contact provided in ad.

Skills

Python

Data analysis

AI/ML

App development

Notebook analysis

Education

Computer Science, IT

Job description

Digital innovation projects for R&D units

/ Digital innovation projects for R&D units

Help out a research team by implementing a digital solution for them

ICT offers a lot of platforms and technology to help R&D units to apply digital innovation easily and to make it efficient, scalable and reliable to create and maintain digital solutions for their problems. R&D units can use these platforms themselves via self-service, or projects can be initiated to engage developers in a specific project. This is where the internship comes in: helping R&D people and teams by working out a digital solution for their problem. There is a list of problems/opportunities that can be worked on, and new opportunities and questions from research teams come in regularly. Based on the experience, the available time, and the interests of the candidate, we will look into which projects would be most suited. This could be developing an app in our app-dev-platform, creating some python script for data processing, interactive data analysis in notebooks, train an AI model on images, …

Type of internship: Master internship

Required educational background: Computer Science, IT

The reference code for this position is 2026-INT-030. Mention this reference code in your application.

Only for self-supporting students.

The imec ICT department is searching for an intern focussed on digital innovation for R&D. Imec has a lot of R&D units, each working on their own specific research. What they all have in common, is that they can use digital innovation to make themselves more efficient in the specific business processes that they do. This can go from apps to manage experiments, manage lab equipment, manage requests or tasks coming from other groups, getting data out of lab tools or systems, transforming and analysing data, running simulations, … A lot of work still happens in excel, requiring a lot of manual work which could be automated, processes suffer from human errors, … These challenges can typically be solved or improved with “digital innovation”: building applications, automation through data pipelines, automated reports, data platforms and solutions, …

ICT offers a lot of platforms and technology to help R&D units to apply digital innovation easily and to make it efficient, scalable and reliable to create and maintain digital solutions for their problems. R&D units can use these platforms themselves via self-service, or projects can be initiated to engage developers in a specific project. This is where the internship comes in: helping R&D people and teams by working out a digital solution for their problem. There is a list of problems/opportunities that can be worked on, and new opportunities and questions from research teams come in regularly. Based on the experience, the available time, and the interests of the candidate, we will look into which projects would be most suited. This could be developing an app in our app-dev-platform, creating some python script for data processing, interactive data analysis in notebooks, train an AI model on images, …

Type of internship: Master internship

Required educational background: Computer Science, IT

Supervising scientist(s): For further information or for application, please contact Wim Vancuyck ([e-mail]) and Jonathan Eeckhout ([e-mail])

The reference code for this position is 2026-INT-030. Mention this reference code in your application.

Only for self-supporting students.

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