Tech giant Google is hiring for its 2026 internship cohort in India. Apply for Student Researcher, Software Engineering PhD Intern, and Silicon Engineering PhD Intern positions.
Global technology pioneer Google has updated its careers portal with highly competitive opportunities for its Summer 2026 Internship & Research cohort in India. These elite positions are targeted at exceptional students—ranging from undergraduate technical minds to advanced PhD candidates—seeking to solve real-world complexities at hyper-scale.
Positions are open across Google’s core Indian engineering hubs in Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
Job Drive Overview
Role
Eligible Degrees
Primary Locations
Core Technical Focus
Student Researcher, 2026
Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD
Bengaluru
NLU, Machine Learning, Data Science, CV
Software Engineering PhD Intern
Currently pursuing a PhD
Bengaluru, Hyderabad
Systems, Algorithms, Software Design
Silicon Engineering PhD Intern
Currently pursuing a PhD
Bengaluru, Hyderabad
ASIC, Verilog, FPGAs, Hardware Architecture
Detailed Role Breakdowns
1. Student Researcher, 2026
This academic-focused research internship allows students to work alongside Google scientists on foundational and applied computer science problems.
Minimum Qualifications: Must be currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree program in Computer Science, Linguistics, Statistics, Biostatistics, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, Economics, or Natural Sciences.
Core Skills Needed: Demonstrated baseline experience or academic projects in fields like Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Vision (CV), Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or Quantum Information Science.
2. Software Engineering PhD Intern (Summer 2026)
Designed for doctoral candidates who want to step away from pure academic theory and deploy production-level software impacting billions of active users.
Minimum Qualifications: Currently pursuing a PhD program with a heavy focus on software development or a closely related technical field.
Core Skills Needed: Exceptional proficiency in general-purpose programming languages (such as Java, C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Go), a rock-solid grasp of advanced data structures/algorithms, and practical experience navigating Unix/Linux developer environments.
3. Silicon Engineering Intern, PhD (Summer 2026)
An deep-tech hardware role focused on Google’s custom system-on-chip (SoC) infrastructure, infrastructure accelerators, and high-performance tensor processing units (TPUs).
Minimum Qualifications: Currently pursuing a PhD degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), Electrical Engineering, or related fields.
Core Skills Needed: Strong experience using hardware programming scripts and industrial automation environments (C++, Python, Verilog, UVM), paired with Synopsys and Cadence tools. Knowledge of ASIC physical design, FPGAs, digital design verification, or embedded memory architectures is essential.
Perks of Interning at Google
World-Class Mentorship: Direct pairing with seasoned Google engineers and research scientists.
Cutting-Edge Infrastructure: Gain access to proprietary software architectures, advanced compute clusters, and machine learning toolkits.
Inclusive Culture: Work within a celebrated professional ecosystem that prioritizes equity, personal belonging, and collaborative flat hierarchies.
How to Apply
Applications for Google’s internship programs are processed strictly online through the official Life at Google careers portal.
Ensure your academic CV cleanly showcases your graduation month/year, structural course modules, publications (if any), and core coding proficiencies.
Navigate to the explicit job link matching your specialization profile.
Complete the technical assessment routing profiles upon application submission.
