# AI Research Engineer, New PhD Graduate

**Company**: Duolingo
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $137,700-$186,300 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/duolingo/jobs/8881612002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_5bc30147-e57

## Description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.

You will join a team that cares about educating users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems.

**About the role** You will:

- Solve ambitious problems with the right tool for the task

- Collaborate cross-functionally to bring ideas to life in the product

- Identify problems, prototype solutions, evaluate their return on investment, and implement the best solution at scale to improve the lives of millions of learners each day

- Share findings within Duolingo and to the broader research community

**Requirements**

- Ph.D. in computer science or related technical field (or expect to by August 2027)

- Portfolio of impactful work, such as publications, open-source projects, or AI internships

- Ability to relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY

- Creative, interdisciplinary, and entrepreneurial approach to R&D

- Strong debugging and critical thinking skills

**Benefits**

- 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 more!

The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons.

## Skills

### Required
- Ph.D. in computer science
- strong debugging skills
- critical thinking skills

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