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At a glance
Duolingo is hiring a Data Scientist, Intern (PhD) in New York, NY; Pittsburgh, PA. It is a internship role in Data, AI & Analytics, open to entry-level candidates, first listed on November 1. The advertised pay is $63–$65 an hour. The description mentions Machine learning, Statistics, SQL, Python and Snowflake. Duolingo has 41 other openings in the US, 34 of them in New York, NY. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 379 Data & AI openings in New York, NY today; the typical one asks for 5 years and advertises about $222,000 a year at the midpoint.
How the pay compares
Duolingo advertises $63 to $65 an hour, a midpoint of $64 an hour. Where an offer lands in a range usually depends on experience and on the exact location. That is higher than about 69% of the 13 data & AI jobs in New York that publish an hourly rate on USA Jobs 24, where the typical midpoint is $53 an hour. At 40 hours a week all year, $64 an hour comes to about $133,000 before tax. Convert other hourly rates To see roughly what this leaves after federal and New York tax, try our take-home pay calculator.
Skills in this advert
How often each skill named in this advert appears across the 1,778 data & AI jobs we list today. Python is the most widely requested (46% of jobs), while Snowflake is the least common (10%). Widely requested skills are what employers expect as a baseline; rarer ones show what is special about this job.
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About hiring at Duolingo
Duolingo has 42 openings on USA Jobs 24 today across 5 states. Most are in product & design (10), software & IT (9) and data & AI (7). The biggest locations are New York, NY (35), Pittsburgh, PA (30) and Detroit, MI (1). 5% of them are remote, 14% are open to entry-level candidates and 95% show pay. We collect Duolingo's jobs every day straight from its own careers system (Greenhouse), never from job boards or agencies.
The employer's advert
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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…
- Language learning opportunities
- Catered in-house lunches and breakfast
- Company-wide Hackathon
- PTO and company holidays
- Frequent company-wide dinners, monthly celebrations, social clubs, and so much more!
Connect with your recruiter on the benefits for interns at Duolingo!
Hourly Range for this internship is:
$63—$65 USD
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Accommodations: We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Equal Employment Opportunity: Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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