Data Scientist, Intern (PhD)

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 methods, structural approaches, causal inference, and/or machine learning and AI 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

- Communicate and present findings and recommendations to senior management

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

You have...

- Pursuing a PhD degree (in at least the third year of PhD program) in a quantitative field (e.g. Economics, Finance, Statistics, Math, Linguistics, Computer Science, Computational Social Science, ML/AI), ideally planning to graduate in Fall 2027 or Spring/Summer 2028

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

- Previous experience analyzing large datasets, communicating results to technical and non-technical senior-level audiences, and making actionable recommendations that improve the product or business

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

- 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 or NYC for the internship

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 to both learn new techniques and guide others

- Previous experience/internships in applied business settings

- 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…