UX Research Intern (PhD) — Shape User-Centric Design

Google

Ann Arbor (MI)

On-site

USD 106,000 - 141,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

Sick time: 40 hours/year (69 hours in/

Holidays: 13 paid days/year

Job summary

Google offers a UX internship in the United States for penultimate-year PhD students in Human Factors, Psychology, HCI, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Information Science, or related fields. Applicants must be located in the US and proficient in English; the program emphasizes user research across multiple methods and collaboration with design, engineering, and product teams.

Interns will contribute to shaping product experiences by conducting studies, analyzing data, and presenting

Qualifications

PhD in Human Factors, Psychology, HCI, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Information Science, or related field.
Experience designing research using usability studies, contextual inquiry, surveys, and related methods.

Responsibilities

Design and conduct independent research using qualitative and quantitative methods.
Communicate findings effectively to stakeholders beyond the project team.
Collect and analyze user behavior through lab studies, field visits, ethnography, surveys, benchmarks, server logs, and online experiments (A/B).
Collaborate cross-functionally with design, engineering, and product management to drive data-driven decisions.