Trainee (Leveraging Administration for Automation, AI and Digitisation) (AI)

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands. The traineeship takes place at the Agency’s premises, with teleworking up to 40% of working time from the Netherlands and occasional teleworking from outside the Netherlands.

Salary: €2,049.77 per month for a full-time traineeship, reduced proportionally for 80% or 50% arrangements.

Company

The European Medicines Agency is a decentralised European Union agency responsible for the scientific evaluation, supervision, and safety monitoring of medicines in the EU.

What you will do

• Contribute to planning and coordinating an AI project, including design, testing, and rollout.
• Gather and analyse business requirements for administrative process improvement.
• Collaborate with the LEAAAD office and divisional teams to integrate and adopt the AI solution.
• Participate in data preparation, model evaluation, and performance monitoring.
• Document project outcomes, lessons learned, assumptions, limitations, and recommendations.
• Present project progress, outcomes, and benefits to non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• EU, Icelandic, Liechtenstein, or Norwegian citizenship with full rights is required.
• English at C1 level or higher and good knowledge of another official EU language at B2 level or higher are required.
• A relevant university degree of at least three years, obtained between 30 September 2025 and 30 September 2026, or current Erasmus+, equivalent, PhD, or Master’s student status with a previously completed degree.
• Knowledge of Python, including data cleaning with Pandas and NumPy, data visualisation with Plotly, and data validation with Pydantic or regular expressions.
• Communication, interpersonal, collaboration, adaptability, research, analytical, and learning skills.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Power BI.

Culture & Benefits

• Ten-month traineeship from 1 March 2027 to 31 December 2027.
• Full-time, 80%, or 50% participation is available when combined with university studies.
• Mentorship throughout the traineeship.
• Flexible working arrangements, teleworking, annual leave, and official holidays.
• Travel contribution upon joining the Agency.
• Multinational and multidisciplinary working environment focused on public and animal health.

Hiring process

• Applications close on 30 September 2026 at 23:59 CEST.
• Remote assessments take place from mid-October to mid-November 2026.
• Decision and offers are expected by the end of December 2026.