User Experience Engineer Intern, PhD, Summer 2027

About the job

Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $106000 - $141000 (USD) + 0% bonus target

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with UX designers, project managers and back-end engineers to implement versatile front-end solutions to web development issues.
• Launch, iterate and make a difference. Provide front-end coding expertise, and help make our products better for users.
• Manage your own time, and work well both independently and as part of a team.
• Design, architect, and implement high-fidelity interactive prototypes exploring novel interface paradigms (e.g., multimodal AI, conversational/agentic systems, adaptive UIs).

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a PhD degree in Computer Science, HCI, Design, or related technical field.
• Experience with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience in designing and implementing user interfaces (UIs).

Preferred qualifications:

• Currently attending a degree program in the US and available to work full time for 12 weeks outside of university term.
• In penultimate academic year or returning to a degree program after completion of the internship.
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks and libraries (e.g., React, TypeScript, Angular, Vue, etc.).
• Experience developing high-fidelity interactive prototypes, multimodal AI interfaces, or novel interaction models.
• Experience coding in Python, TypeScript, Go, C++, Java, Swift, or Kotlin.