Community

Home >

Jobs >

User Experience Research Intern, PhD, Summer 2025

California, United States (On-site)

User Experience Research Intern, PhD, Summer 2025

1 Month ago • Upto 1 Years • Product Design

About the job

6 skills required for this role

Test your skills to join the top 1% applicants for this job

communication

scalability

user-experience-ux

data-driven-decisions

user-research

alphabeta-testing

Job Description

Google's User Experience (UX) team is looking for a passionate and talented PhD student to join our team as a User Experience Research Intern for the summer of 2025. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and conducting independent research using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, working cross-functionally with designers, engineers, and product managers to ensure user-centric, data-driven decisions are made, and effectively communicating research findings and advocating for them outside of the project team. You will be responsible for collecting and analyzing user behavior through lab studies, field visits, ethnography, surveys, benchmark studies, server logs, and online experiments (A/B testing). This is a full-time internship, lasting 12 weeks, and is open to candidates currently attending a degree program in the US who are available to work full-time outside of university term time.

Must have:

PhD in Human Factors, Psychology, Human Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Information Science, or related field.
Internship, work, or project experience with research design utilizing various methods (e.g., usability studies, contextual inquiry, surveys, etc.).

Good to have:

Experience integrating user research into product designs and design practices.
Knowledge of statistics and experimental design.
Excellent communication, negotiation, and collaboration skills.

Not hearing back from companies?

Unlock the secrets to a successful job application and accelerate your journey to your next opportunity.

Minimum qualifications:

Currently pursuing a PhD degree in Human Factors, Psychology, Human Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Information Science, or related field.
Internship, work, or project experience with research design utilizing various methods (e.g., usability studies, contextual inquiry, surveys, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

Currently attending a degree program in the US and available to work full time for 12 weeks outside of university term time.
In their penultimate academic year or returning to a degree program after completion of the internship.
Experience integrating user research into product designs and design practices.
Knowledge of statistics and experimental design.
Excellent communication, negotiation, and collaboration skills.

About the job

User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers who focus on customer experience. We play an integral part in gathering insights about product user needs, attitudes, and behaviors to inspire and inform design.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $100,000-$128,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .

Responsibilities

Design and conduct independent research using a variety of qualitative research methods, utilizing quantitative methods when necessary.
Work cross-functionally with design, engineering, and product management to ensure teams makes user-centric, data-driven decisions.
Ensure effective communication of research findings and advocate findings outside of the project team.
Collect and analyze user behavior through lab studies, field visits, ethnography, surveys, benchmark studies, server logs and online experiments (A/B testing).

View Full Job Description

$100.0K - $128.0K/yr (Outscal est.)

$114.0K/yr avg.

Mountain View, California, United States

Upload your resume, increase your shortlisting chances by 80%

About The Company

Google

1149 Active Jobs

A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.