Research Scientist PhD Intern, 2027

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Please complete your application before 23rd October 2026. We encourage you to apply as early as possible as we review applications on a rolling basis.

This internship is intended for students enrolled in their penultimate/final year of education in an accredited full-time PhD degree program located in the EMEA region. Participation in the internship program requires that you are located in one of the specific country locations identified for this role, for the duration of the internship program. Interns will be required to be available to work full-time for a minimum of 13 weeks over the Summer 2026 (starting in May, June or July) for the duration of the program. Individuals applying for this position will not be eligible for immigration sponsorship.

To start the application process, you will need an updated CV or resume and a current unofficial or official transcript in English. Click on the “Apply” button on this page and provide the required materials in the appropriate sections (PDFs preferred):

1. In the “Resume Section:” attach an updated CV or resume

2. In the “Education Section:” attach a current or recent unofficial or official transcript in English. Under “Degree Status,” select “Now attending” to upload a transcript.

Please include your expected graduation date (month and year), and availability for the internship on your resume. The specific team and project(s) will be determined based on your educational background, interest and skills.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Zürich, Switzerland; Munich, Germany; Paris, France.

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, Algorithmic Foundations of Optimization, Data Mining, Machine Intelligence, AI/ML Algorithms, Deep Learning or Image Processing, multimodal, multilingual and reinforcement learning.

• Experience and profiency in one or more general purpose programming languages: Java, C++, Python, or Go.

• 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.

• Ability to design and execute on research agendas.

• Ability to complete a 13-17 week full-time internship in Switzerland, France or Germany starting in either May, June or July 2027.

About the job

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.

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 offering.

• Contribute to a wide variety of projects utilizing natural language processing, artificial intelligence, data compression, machine learning, and search technologies.

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