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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.
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!
