Required Part-Time Research Scientist PhD Intern, 2027
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 in their penultimate/final year of education in an accredited full-time PhD degree program in Israel. Participation in the internship program requires that you are located in Israel for this role for the duration of the internship program. Interns will be required to be available to work part-time (minimum 2 days a week, maximum 4 days a week) alongside your studies for a minimum of 26 weeks starting early 2027 (starting in March, April or May) for the duration of the program. Individuals applying for this position will not be eligible for immigration sponsorship.
About the job
Research happens everyday, on many different embedded teams throughout the company. Our research reaches the user through both services and products such as Search, Maps, Assistant, Translate, Cloud, and our computing, storage, and networking infrastructure. To achieve this, were working on projects that utilize the latest technologies that push the boundaries of what is possible. 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.
Our 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 our 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 our product offering.
Contribute to a wide variety of projects utilising natural language processing, artificial intelligence, data compression, machine learning, and search technologies.
Requirements: Minimum qualifications:
Currently enrolled in a PhD degree in Computer Science or a related technical field in Israel, 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, 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 26 week internship in Israel starting between March to May 2027.
This position is open to all candidates.