# AI Research Engineer, New PhD Graduate at Duolingo

- Company: Duolingo
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: New York, NY; Pittsburgh, PA
- Level: Junior
- Discipline: AI & ML
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $138K–186K
- Posted: 2026-10-12
- Skills: PyTorch
- Apply: https://careers.duolingo.com/jobs/8881612002?gh_jid=8881612002

## Description

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... 
• Solve our most ambitious problems with the right tool for the task
• Collaborate cross-functionally to bring your ideas to life in the product
• Identify problems, prototype solutions, evaluate their return on investment, and then implement the best solution at scale to improve the lives of our millions of learners each day
• Share your findings both within Duolingo as well as to the broader research community
 ✅ You have... 
• You have an Ph.D. in computer science or related technical field (or expect to by August 2027)
• A portfolio of impactful work, in the form of (for example) publications, open-source projects, or AI internships
• Ability to relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY
• A creative, interdisciplinary, and entrepreneurial approach to R&D
• Strong debugging and critical thinking skills
 ❤️ Why you'll love working here... 
• Language learning opportunities
• Catered in-house lunches and breakfast
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