Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering PhD Intern, 2025

Requirements:

• 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).
• Coding experience in one of the following programming languages: Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript.

Nice to haves:

• Ability to complete a 13-17 week full-time internship in the internship location between May - October 2025.
• Relevant practical or internship experience with programming in either: C++, Java, Python, or Go.
• Relevant practical or internship experience with web application development, Unix/Linux, mobile application development, distributed and parallel systems, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, networking, developing large software systems, and/or security software development.
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.

What you'll be doing:

• 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.

Perks and benefits:

• Internship opportunity at Google.
• Work on critical projects impacting Google's needs.
• Experience in software engineering or site reliability engineering.
• Hands-on coding experience with a variety of languages.