Software Engineering PhD Intern, 2027
Zürich, SwitzerlandInternPosted 2mo ago
About the role
Software Engineering Intern position based in Europe (EMEA) for penultimate/final year PhD students, with opportunities in software development, site reliability, and research-oriented projects across Google’s product areas. Internship duration 13-17 weeks, full-time, starting May–July 2027, located in Switzerland or Germany.
Responsibilities
- Research, conceive and develop software applications to extend and improve on Google's product offering.
- Contribute to a wide variety of projects using natural language processing, artificial intelligence, data compression, machine learning, and search technologies.
- Collaborate on scalability issues involving access to data and information.
- Utilise exposure to large-scale production software troubleshooting.
- Help maintain mission critical services.
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 working with data structures or algorithms during coursework/projects, research, internships, or practical experience in school or work (e.g., open-source coding).
- Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages (e.g., Java, C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Go, etc.).
Skills
Required:Algorithms and data structuresProgramming languages
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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