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Emerging Professional Experience

Our award-winning program goes way beyond the typical “summer internship.” Make an impact with real design work. Connect with multi-disciplinary peers across the country. See all the angles of a successful business during dedicated time with firm leadership.

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Straight Talk

98% of our EPX’ers feel their experience gave them the resources to succeed. But don’t take our word for it: read how past emerging professionals connected to the firm’s values and kickstarted their careers – in their own words.

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Our 12 Week EPX Program

By the Numbers

100+

emerging professionals

10

integrated design disciplines

38

guest speakers covering all aspects of the industry

FAQ

What You Need To Know

How Can I Intern with DLR Group?

Our firm supports the next generation of big thinkers so they can influence and mold the future of our industry. For decades, our investment in interns and new graduates has not only built our future workforce, but also ensured that students gain the insight and opportunities they need to build successful, meaningful careers. We’ve hosted internships for students from high school to postgraduate. No matter when they come to us in their education journey, they often have similar questions.

Learn more about our internship experience

Emerging Professionals as a Priority

DLR Group is continuing its commitment to the next generation of AEC leaders through hiring, mentoring, and investing in interns and new graduates. We’ve evolved our Summer Internship Experience Program to the Emerging Professional Experience Program. All interns will participate in the program, and recent graduates who are full-time employee-owners are also encouraged to participate.

Read about the program.

Services

Explore Your Options

  • Acoustic Design

    Experience optimally tuned environments through seamlessly integrated acoustic design.

  • Architecture

    Build an environment that cares for people, culture, and planet.

  • Engineering

    Innovative design concepts become reality with smart, resource-aware engineering solutions.

  • Experiential Graphic Design

    Amplify your brand with visual environments and identities that create loyalty and engagement. 

  • High Performance Design

    Navigate climate goals while enriching occupant experience with science-based performance simulations.

  • Interiors

    Shaping the inner life of a building, where aesthetics align with purpose.

  • Lighting Design

    Illuminate health and happiness with lighting design that balances beauty and budget.

  • Planning

    Empower a resilient future for cities, communities, and places with visionary planning solutions.

  • Preservation

    Find new futures and functions for historic legacies, respecting the past while adapting to evolving needs.

  • Reality Capture

    Analyze site conditions in real time and turn data into design.

  • Renewables

    Solve energy challenges with reliable renewables engineering from trusted technical experts.

  • Science+Technology

    Accelerate solutions for humanity’s most pressing challenges with adaptable environments designed for scientific discovery.

  • Theater Planning

    Performance spaces that connect and deliver stories with impact.

Leadership

Meet our People

Our sector, discipline, and executive leaders are dispersed to mentor the next generation of employee-owners, counsel clients, and share their design voice in their local communities.

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Careers

Design Opportunities

The concept of ownership, its importance to our culture, and the immense benefits are rather simple. Driven by opportunity, we make decisions that impact not only our success but also that of our clients and partners.

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