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Application Engineering Intern, Winter 2026

Google
Full-time
On-site
Please complete your application before September 17, 2025.

Our Winter internships will start in January 2026 and will be 22-24 weeks in duration.

This internship is intended for students who are pursuing the final year in a Bachelor's, Master's or a Dual degree program in Computer Science or a related field and will graduate in 2026.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science or related technical field.
  • Experience in one or more general purpose programming languages.
  • Ability to communicate in English fluently to participate in technical discussions.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience programming in Java or C++.
  • Experience in systems software or algorithms as well as in SQL, Spring, API development, Web Services (e.g., RESTful, SOAP), JavaScript, or Typescript.
  • Available to work full time for 6 months outside of university term time.

About the job

As an Applications Engineering Intern, you will play a key role in developing, deploying, and supporting Google’s internal business applications. You will be tasked with solving various problems over time. When the situation calls for it, you will be part of a team that implements vendor sourced enterprise software, configuring that software, customizing it, and integrating with other internal systems. Other times, you will be primarily tasked with creating custom-built software.

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.

Responsibilities

  • Build internal solutions with custom front-ends (e.g., web, mobile) and back-end services that automate business processes. Maintain highest levels of development practices including technical design, solution development, systems configuration, test documentation/execution, issue identification, and resolution, writing clean, modular, and self-sustaining code.
  • Help partners in their day-to-day challenges by delivering innovative and scalable solutions, and troubleshooting their problems. Understand operational workflows, identify and define tool needs to enable operational scaling, and drive the development (initial and ongoing) and deployment of these tools with Engineering.
  • Work closely with analysts to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Integrate third-party products into internal systems as well as support and upgrade implemented systems.
  • Partner with internal teams to define and implement solutions that improve internal business processes.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
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