Google DeepMind Research Ready Internships

Application:

The APRIL AI Hub seeks to appoint Undergraduate Interns. This position will report to Professor Themis Prodromakis within the School of Engineering.

Contract type:

• Fixed-term (8 weeks) Hours per week: 35 
  • Stipend of £400 per student per week
  • Maintenance payment of £259 per week
  • Student travel of £225 per student to cover the entire placement
• Start Date: 2nd June 2025
  
  

The Opportunity:

The appointee will be responsible for working on a project within the APRIL AI Hub with a research focus, assisting with data analysis, process improvement, and reporting findings. They will contribute to the relevant APRIL internship programme events and School activities. The successful applicant will have a background in Computer Science or Engineering, demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and be capable of independent work. We encourage applications from underrepresented groups and from individuals from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Capability to work independently and manage time effectively.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Creativity in problem-solving and idea generation.
• Demonstrable skills in team collaboration and project management.

Your eligibility:

• Penultimate year undergraduate students
• Final year undergraduate students
• And students that have already completed an undergraduate degree.

Please apply by emailing APRIL.Opportunities@ed.ac.uk with a cover letter and CV in pdf format.
The file name should be "[Your Name]_CV" or "[Your Name]_Cover Letter". 

As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging, and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent, and reward success. The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is the 25th of February 2025 11:59pm GMT.

APRIL AI Hub Summer Celebration & Showcase

Sign up to attend our APRIL AI Hub Summer Celebration & Showcase on Friday, 25th July 2025 on Kings' Buildings Campus via this Eventbrite link: https://edin.ac/412zZWM (Please see the Eventbrite Terms of Service: https://edin.ac/42zfKB4)

Join us as we come together to celebrate an academic year of achievements, innovation, and collaboration before the summer break! This event is a fantastic opportunity to showcase the incredible work happening within APRIL, connect with fellow researchers, and recognise the contributions of our summer interns.

The day will feature research presentations, a Dragons’ Den-style session where APRIL interns will pitch the outcomes of their projects, and an exciting talent show—a chance to meet the people who make APRIL truly special beyond their research.

Itinerary:

🔹10:30am – Registration & Poster Session – Browse the latest research from APRIL members.
🔹12pm – Opening Welcome & Lightning Talks – Quick, impactful presentations in the Elm Lecture Theatre.
🔹1pm – Lunch – A chance to connect and discuss ideas over food.
🔹1:45pm – Dragons’ Den – Interns showcase their work in an engaging pitch-style session.
🔹3:30pm – Awards Ceremony
🔹4pm – Drinks Reception – Celebrate with colleagues in a relaxed setting.
🔹4:30pm – Talent Show – Discover the hidden talents of our APRIL community!
🔹6pm – Event Close

We look forward to celebrating with you all and reflecting on a fantastic academic year! 🎉

We warmly invite everyone to participate in the celebrations, although joining in on the activities is completely optional. Nevertheless, we would deeply value your attendance and contributions—whether you're presenting, supporting your colleagues, or just enjoying the festivities!

The Scheme:

The scheme is a partnership between the Royal Academy of Engineering, Google DeepMind and The Hg Foundation. It is funding up to 120 paid AI research placements in summer 2025, hosted by 12 UK universities.

It aims to widen participation in AI research by addressing barriers encountered by undergraduates from socioeconomically disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds in progressing to advanced degrees and careers in AI. In doing so, it will build a stronger, more diverse AI research community that can bring unique perspectives and solutions to the field. 

The programme will support eligible undergraduates to improve their knowledge of the different areas of AI, build their research expertise, understand the routes into different AI careers, and build confidence in taking the next steps in their education or career journey in AI.

The Royal Academy of Engineering is harnessing the power of engineering to build a sustainable society and an inclusive economy that works for everyone. In collaboration with our Fellows and partners, we’re growing talent and developing skills for the future, driving innovation and building global partnerships, and influencing policy and engaging the public. Together we’re working to tackle the greatest challenges of our age.

Royal Academy of Engineering: 
•    Twitter/X: @RAEngNews
•    LinkedIn: @Royal Academy of Engineering
•    Facebook: @RAEngineering

Google DeepMind is a world-leading AI research lab with British heritage and an international team, committed to building AI responsibly, delivering scientific breakthroughs, and creating products that improve billions of lives. The unit’s breakthroughs over the last decade include AlphaGo - the first computer program to defeat a Go world champion, Transformers - neural networks that underpin all modern language models, AlphaFold - an AI system that predicts 3D models of protein structures enabling further scientific advancement, and Gemini, a family of versatile AI models built from the ground up for multimodality, seamlessly combining and understanding text, code, images, audio and video.

Google DeepMind:
•    Twitter/X: @GoogleDeepMind
•    LinkedIn: @Google DeepMind
•    Instagram: @googledeepmind

The Hg Foundation’s vision is that the tech workforce of the future harnesses the talents of all, regardless of background. It does this by supporting education and employment-based programmes across Europe and the US where it can demonstrate measurable, long-term and scalable impact and make a difference to those that need it most. To date it has committed $30m to programmes that will reach over 50,000 young people and adults from under-represented backgrounds. The Foundation’s work is solely funded by Hg – a leading investor in European and transatlantic software and services businesses. The Hg Foundation is registered Charity no. 1189216.

The Hg Foundation: 
•    X/Twitter: @TheHgFoundatio1
•    LinkedIn: @The Hg Foundation