Research Scientist PhD Intern, 2027

Research happens at Google everyday, on many different embedded teams throughout the company. Our research reaches the user through both services and products such as Search, Maps, Google Assistant, Google Translate, Google Cloud, and our computing, storage, and networking infrastructure. To achieve this, we’re working on projects that utilize the latest technologies that push the boundaries of what is possible. At Google, research-focused engineering interns are embedded throughout the company, contributing to the setup of 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 all over the world. 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, as well as core search and more.

Google Research addresses challenges that define the technology of today and tomorrow. From conducting fundamental research to influencing product development, our research teams have the opportunity to impact technology used by billions of people every day.

Our teams aspire to make discoveries that impact everyone, and core to our approach is sharing 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.

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 offering.

Contribute to a wide variety of projects utilising 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/final year of education.

Experience in one or more research areas; natural language understanding/processing, computer vision, LLMs, machine learning, algorithmic foundations of optimization, data mining, machine intelligence (Artificial Intelligence), 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 author).

Preferred qualifications:

Experience as a researcher, including internships, full-time, or at a lab.

Experience contributing to research communities or efforts, including publishing papers in conferences or journals.

Experience in 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.