Technology & IT

Data Scientist, Intern (PhD) at Duolingo

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  • Company: Duolingo
  • Location: New York, NY; Pittsburgh, PA
  • Job type: Internship
  • Salary: $63 – $65/hour

About the role

Join Duolingo’s mission to make the best education universally available. As a Data Scientist Intern, you will work with a team dedicated to fact-based decision-making and innovative problem-solving. You will collaborate daily with world-class minds to create meaningful and fun work that impacts half a billion learners.

Responsibilities

  • Derive insights from data to influence product roadmaps and drive business results.
  • Apply advanced analytical methods, causal inference, and machine learning to model user behavior and estimate feature impact.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to develop solutions.
  • Evaluate product experiments to improve user experiences.
  • Communicate findings and recommendations to senior management.
  • Help preserve the culture of fact-based decision making as the company scales.

Requirements

  • Pursuing a PhD in a quantitative field (e.g., Economics, Statistics, CS, ML/AI) with at least three years of study completed.
  • Ideally planning to graduate in Fall 2027 or Spring/Summer 2028.
  • Strong understanding of consumer digital products and interest in applying advanced analytics to business outcomes.
  • Experience analyzing large datasets and communicating results to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Skilled in SQL, R, or Python, and statistical methods for behavioral data analysis.
  • Able to relocate to Pittsburgh or NYC for the internship.

Pay and benefits

  • Hourly pay range: $63 – $65 USD.
  • Language learning opportunities.
  • Catered in-house lunches and breakfast.
  • Company-wide Hackathon.
  • PTO and company holidays.
  • Frequent company-wide dinners, monthly celebrations, and social clubs.

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