Data Scientist, Intern

About the role

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!

At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

Read our blog to learn more.

About the role

You will...

- Derive insights from data to influence product roadmaps and drive business results

- Apply advanced analytical and AI methods to model user behavior and estimate the impact of potential new feature implementations, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to develop solutions

- Evaluate product experiments to create and improve user experiences

- Develop dashboards, reports, and/or forecasts

- Ensure the quality of our tracking and data collection

- Help preserve our culture of fact-based decision making as we scale

You have...

- Pursuing an Undergraduate or Masters degree in a quantitative field (e.g., statistics, economics, computer science, math, linguistics, computational social science, ML/AI) with expected graduation in Fall 2027 or Spring/Summer 2028

- Strong understanding of consumer digital products and an interest in applying advanced analytics to business outcomes

- Previous experience analyzing large datasets and communicating results

- Skilled in SQL, Python or R, and/or statistical methods to analyze behavioral data

- Excellent presentation and communication skills

- Enthusiasm for learning and sharing analytical methods to help grow a collaborative Data Science team and data-forward company culture

- Able to relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY

Exceptional candidates will have...

- Experience with "big data" and cloud computing technologies like BigQuery, Snowflake, and/or dbt

- Experience articulating business questions and using available data to find answers that translate into product recommendations

- Self-starter, with a desire both to learn new techniques and guide others

- Familiarity with AI tools such as Cursor, a knack for prompt engineering, and a desire to continue to innovate and learn in AI.

- A GPA of 3.5+

- A Duolingo streak

Why you’ll love working here…

- Language learning opportunities

- Catered in-house lunches, and breakfast and dinner options

- Company-wide Hackathon

- Frequent company-wide dinners, monthly celebrations, social clubs, and so much more!