Research Scientist PhD Intern, 2027

About

Research happens at Google every day across many embedded teams throughout the company. Our research reaches users through services and products such as Search, Maps, Google Assistant, Google Translate, Google Cloud, and our computing, storage, and networking infrastructure. To achieve this, we work on projects that use the latest technologies and push the boundaries of what is possible.

At Google, research-focused engineering interns are embedded throughout the company. They contribute to setting up large-scale tests and deploying promising ideas quickly and broadly. Ideas may come from internal projects, as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes worldwide. From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing architectures, research-focused engineering interns work on real-world problems including artificial intelligence, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, core search, and more.

Google Research addresses challenges that define the technology of today and tomorrow. From conducting fundamental research to influencing product development, research teams have the opportunity to impact technology used by billions of people every day. Our teams aim to make discoveries that impact everyone, and we share our research and tools to fuel progress in the field. We publish regularly in academic journals, release projects as open source, and apply research to Google products.

Responsibilities

• Participate in research to develop solutions for real-world, large-scale problems.
• Research, conceive, and develop software applications to extend and improve on Google’s product offerings.
• Contribute to a wide variety of projects using natural language processing, artificial intelligence, data compression, machine learning, and search technologies.

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a PhD degree in Computer Science or a related technical field in the EMEA region, and in your penultimate or final year of education.
• Experience in one or more research areas, such as natural language understanding/processing, computer vision, LLMs, machine learning, algorithmic foundations of optimization, data mining, machine intelligence (AI), AI/ML algorithms, deep learning or image processing, multimodal, multilingual, and reinforcement learning.
• Experience with research from previous internships, full-time industry experience, personal projects, lab work, or published papers (being listed as an author).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a researcher, including internships, full-time roles, or lab experience.
• Experience contributing to research communities or efforts, including publishing papers in conferences or journals.
• Experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages: Java, C++, Python, or Go.
• Ability to complete a 13–17 week full-time internship in the United Kingdom starting in either May, June, or July 2027.
• Ability to design and execute on research agendas.