# AI Research Intern (PhD) at Duolingo

- Company: Duolingo
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: New York, NY; Pittsburgh, PA
- Level: Junior
- Discipline: AI & ML
- Employment: Internship
- Salary: $67–69/hr
- Posted: 2026-11-06
- Skills: PyTorch
- Apply: https://careers.duolingo.com/jobs/8928712002?gh_jid=8928712002

## 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.
 🧠 You Will... 
• Apply AI methods to massive real-world datasets
• Prototype new models, evaluate with small scale experiments, and/or productionize solutions at scale
• Work with a cross-functional team of world class researchers, engineers, and others to build new product features and/or publish state-of-the-art findings
• 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
 ✅ You Have... 
• Pursuing a PhD in artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, or related field
• Graduation expected by August 2028
• Contributions to research communities and efforts, including publishing papers at conferences such as ACL, CVPR, EDM, ICML, NeurIPS, etc.
• A portfol

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