# Data Scientist, 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: $63–65/hr
- Posted: 2026-10-15
- Skills: University
- Apply: https://careers.duolingo.com/jobs/8888848002?gh_jid=8888848002

## 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... 
• 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 ad

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