PhD Research Scientist - AI/ML & NLP Internship

Google; Zürich; On-site; CHF 56,000 - 71,000; Full time

Job summary

Google welcomes PhD students to participate in a summer research internship in Switzerland, with opportunities to work on real-world problems across multiple embedded teams. The role involves contributing to projects in NLP/ML, data mining and search technologies, and aligning with ongoing research agendas.

Applicants must be enrolled in a penultimate or final year PhD program in the EMEA region and available for 13 weeks in Summer 2026.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a PhD degree in Computer Science or a related field in the EMEA region, in penultimate/final year.
• Experience in one or more research areas: NLP/NR, CV, LLMs, optimization, data mining, AI/ML or related fields.
• Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages: Java, C++, Python or Go.
• Experience with research from internships, industry, projects or publications.

Responsibilities

• Participate in research to develop solutions for real-world, large-scale problems.
• Research, conceive and develop software applications to extend Google's product offering.
• Contribute to a wide variety of projects using NLP, AI, data compression, ML and search technologies.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Go

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google welcomes PhD students to participate in a summer research internship in Switzerland, with opportunities to work on real-world problems across multiple embedded teams. The role involves contributing to projects in NLP/ML, data mining and search technologies, and aligning with ongoing research agendas.

Applicants must be enrolled in a penultimate or final year PhD program in the EMEA region and available for 13 weeks in Summer 2026.