Research Scientist Intern, PhD, 2025
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Please complete your application by April 17th, 2025.
Our Summer Internships start in late November 2025 and are 12 weeks in duration.
To start the application process, you will need an updated CV or resume and a current unofficial or official transcript in English.
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Minimum qualifications:
- Currently enrolled in a Master's degree or PhD program in Computer Science, Linguistics, Statistics, Applied Mathematics or a related technical field.
- Experience in one area of Computer Science (e.g., Large Language Models, Natural Language Understanding, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Algorithmic Foundations of Optimization, Software Engineering, etc.).
- Experience programming in one or more of the following: C/C++, Java, or Python.
Preferred qualifications:
- Currently enrolled in a full-time degree program and returning to the program after completion of the internship.
- 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 with one or more general purpose programming languages (e.g., C/C++, Java, MATLAB, Go, Python, TF, PAX/JAX etc.).
- Ability to design and execute on research agendas.
About the job
Research happens across Google everyday, in many different teams. Our research has already impacted user-facing services across Google including Search, Maps, and Google Now, and is central to the success of Google Cloud and our computing, storage, and networking infrastructure.
Research Interns work with Research Scientists and Software Engineers to discover, invent, and build at scale. Ideas may come from internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes. From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing architectures, Research Interns work on challenges in artificial intelligence, machine perception, data mining, machine learning, natural language understanding, privacy, computer architecture, networking, operating systems, storage and data management, and more. You are also expected to contribute to the wider research community by publishing papers.
We're constantly refining the signature search engine to provide better results, expanding the scope and utility of the data-analytics systems, enhancing cloud applications and infrastructure, among a broad range of other Google products.
At Google, engineers work on search, and they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications, and platforms for developers.
Google is and always will be an engineering company. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to address some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on millions, if not billions, of users. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on massive scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Social to Local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.
Responsibilities
- Participate in research to develop solutions for 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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