User Experience Engineer Intern, PhD, Summer 2027

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 106,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Google UX Engineer internship in Mountain View invites PhD candidates in CS/HCI/design to join cross-disciplinary teams. You will work on the front end in a fast-paced environment, bridging UX best practices with production code.

You will collaborate with designers, researchers, and engineers to implement high-fidelity prototypes, contribute to multimodal AI interfaces, and iterate based on user feedback. The program emphasizes hands-on learning, exposure to cutting-edge tools, and global

Qualifications

• Pursuing a PhD in CS, HCI, design, or related field.
• Experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS.
• Experience in designing and implementing UIs.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with UX designers, PMs and back-end engineers to implement front-end solutions.
• Launch, iterate and improve products with front-end expertise.
• Manage time and collaborate effectively in a team.
• Design and implement high-fidelity prototypes exploring multimodal AI interfaces and novel interaction models.

Skills

UI design

JavaScript

HTML/CSS

Education

PhD candidacy in CS/HCI/design

Tools

React

TypeScript

Angular

Vue

Job description

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).