User Experience Engineer Intern, PhD, Summer 2027

Google; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 106,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

Sick time off (5 days)

Paid holidays during internship

Job summary

Google's UX team seeks a User Experience Engineer Intern enrolled in a PhD program to contribute to front-end development across platforms during Summer 2027.

This paid internship offers opportunities to work with designers, researchers, and engineers on high-fidelity prototypes and multimodal interfaces, applying frontend skills in a fast-paced environment in the United States.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, HCI, or related field.
• Experience with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience designing and implementing user interfaces (UIs).
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript, Angular, Vue).

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).

Skills

JavaScript

HTML

CSS

UI design

React

TypeScript

Python

Education

PhD in Computer Science / HCI / Design

Job description

User Experience Engineer Intern, PhD, Summer 2027

Google

Intern & Apprentice

Location(s): Mountain View, CA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; +23 more

Participation in the internship program requires that you are located in the United States for the duration of the internship program.

This internship is intended for students who are currently pursuing a PhD degree program in Computer Science, HCI, Design or related technical field.

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for this internship program.

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision insurance
• Sick Time: Includes 5 discretionary sick days per instance to prioritize your well-being, in addition to all applicable local and state statutory sick leave.
• Interns receive paid time off for any official company holidays that fall within their internship term.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Bellevue, WA, USA; Cambridge, MA, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Irvine, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Madison, WI, USA; New York, NY, USA; Palo Alto, CA, USA; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Reston, VA, USA; Redmond, WA, USA; San Diego, CA, USA; Goleta, CA, USA; San Bruno, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; SantaCruz, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA; Portland, OR, USA.

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.

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.

As a UX Engineer, you'll work on the front end of our products in a challenging, fast-paced environment, helping to bridge UX best practices and production execution. You’ll demonstrate your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user facing technologies to enable efficient, high quality execution and communications and launch innovative features to a global audience.

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).